Dear Hashers and Booklovers,
The Cal Book fair is on in Salt Lake but heres something closer to
town. Hope you will join. It gives us great pleasure to invite you to
the following event at Crossword, Elgin road, Kolkata.
Join us for the launch of the book 'The Calcutta ktchen' by Simon
Parkes and Udit Sarkhel.

The launch will be followed by a dialogue with Mr. Victor Banerjee
(Actor and gourmet), Mr. Nondon Bagchi (Food critic & leading
columnist), Mr. Simon Parkes (London-based food writer and
broadcaster) and Moderator Sujoy Prosad Chatterjee.

Date & Time : Thursday, On 15th February , 6.30 pm.
Venue: Crossword, Elgin road, Kolkata

About the book:

Calcutta's food is richly diverse. There's freshwater fish from the
city's rivers, street food, recipes influenced by the British
presence, sweets, extraordinary vegetarian dishes, and a rich variety
of rice dishes. Simon Parkes explores the city's food culture,
including its people, flavours, markets, traditions and restaurants,
while Udit Sarkhel gives recipes for the city's finest dishes.

The two authors, Simon Parkes, a journalist who works for BBC Radio
4's The Food Programme, and Udit Sarkhel, one of the most respected
Indian chefs in Britain, have combined to produce a timely book on
Bengali cuisine.
There is also a discussion Forum organised by pUBLIC on 17th Feb 5 p.m. at Max Mueller Bhavan on the Right to Information. pLease join us
there.
This Sunday we are set to do the Taratala Environment park. Seven
thirty am. Taj Bengal after. Then we can decide if we want to go to
Tangra in the evening for the chinese new Year.The wetlands hash was cancelled as there were not enough people golng.
Cheers
Neela