Indian Cuisine; temptation irresistable.

 Modern Indian Cuisine is an adorable cuisine almost all over the world. But it has not reached its present position in a day. There is a long history of it. The geographical position of India has also played a responsible role behind its development. I wish to write quite a few articles on Modern Indian Cuisine and the present one is an introduction of that. Your criticism is what I require for inspiration.

I fell into a great confusion when I first learned that our tongue can only differentiate four tastes; salt, sour, bitter and sweet. The reason of confusion was quite simple; what we call as the taste of a food cannot be explained by these four tastes only, there must be some extras. Later on, I learned that our noses take a vital role in taking the taste of foods. That’s why we fail to take the taste of foods when our noses get clogged in cold. Now it’s quite clear that it’s the aroma or fragrance or smell that constitutes the main part of what we mean by the taste of a delicacy.

The Inner Eye

 Benode Behari Mukhopadhyay - Satyajit Ray- The Inner Eye

 

        It was a winter night. The last train just passed the small station of a small town. A young passenger of around twenty was looking for a rickshaw outside the station building. His name is Aditya. He has come to his uncle’s house in his winter vacation. At the outside of the station building it is totally dark. Probably the town is under severe power cut. It’s a no-moon night even the stars are not visible as there is a thin film of dark cloud above the head. After waiting for sometime for a rickshaw the young man decides to go on