Gupta Minakshie Das - Calcutta Cookbook

A Treasury of over 200 Recipes from Pavement to Palace

Illustrations by Utpal Basu

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First published by Penguin Books India 1995

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Copyright The Executory to the Estate of Minakshie Das Gupta; Bunny Gupta and Jaya Chaliha 1995

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ISBN: 978-01-4046-972-1

This digital edition published in 2013.
e-ISBN: 978-93-5118-149-1

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Minakshie Das Guptas flair for cooking and culinary skills were hereditary. Her grandmother and mother are still remembered as great cooks. She had her first cooking lessons in her mothers kitchen in Calcutta when she was knee-high. Her much-acclaimed book, Bangla Ranna was the first collection of Bengali and Anglo-Indian recipes presented in a scientific format. She died in 1994 and The Calcutta Cookbook was the culmination of a lifetime of interest in food from all over the world, particularly from Calcutta where she was born.

Bunny Gupta and Jaya Chaliha are free-lance journalists and writers. Bunny is also a teacher and an innovative cook. Jaya works with craftspersons and underpriviledged women and children. They have been writing together for over a decade. They enjoy and love the cosmopolitan flavour of Calcutta.