Central Park - Mishra's

9 of us walked around the Central Park Salt Lake and the children’s park beside it with the rabbits in the cage. Zoria was in an adventurous mood and took us across the wet grass as the garden paths were very slippery. We climbed up to the slide or look out point and as there were millions of millipedes only Peter slid down while Carl attempted to walk down the slide and may have done it on his hands and legs… Zoria’s adventurousness didn’t extend to sliding down with creepy crawlies and we walked back the ramp instead. We were later joined by Bishwajit whose suggestion it was to try out Mishra’s for breakfast.

We had an adequate breakfast of dosas, uttapams, idlis, cheese omelets and toast washed down with a coffee so light we had to add more. Though it couldn’t compare to a Hyatt breakfast that Zoria was advocating, Peter’s comment was “The breakfast was um, but the company was excellent.”

Peter and Rosie were full of details about the Monsoon Ball and it was quite something with Opera Singer, Viennese waltzes etc. etc. Congratulations to the organizers. It was Parsi new year so we wished Gherdie and wished there could be a Parsi restaurant in Cal. Tangerine has been having a Parsi food Festival. Gherda, Doc, Peter, Rosie and I are quite keen now to start a sort of Diner’s Club or Culinary Calcutta where we’ll meet in the evenings to sample Calcutta specialties that we locals can help the foreigners discover. As Doc is an expert on food as well as everything under the sun, I suggest we start with Bengali cuisine at the Bhajo Hari Manna on Hindustan Road come September.