A whole Banana tree

Highlights

Nandini Sen is rare of a breed in her generation who could deal with orthodox East Bengal cuisine and cosmopolitan West Bengal cookery at a same time with thorough ease. Disciplined in Economics from the prestigious Presidency College Kolkata, many astonished while she fell in love more with the socio-economics behind a culinary culture. She could serve some excellent stories about a Bengali meal or a daily market, without hindering the fine tastes she produces at her kitchen.

Trip Story

In her immersive tour called A Whole Banana Tree Nandini will take you on a stroll at a daily vegetable & fish market first, to feel the choices, habits and passions of the Bengali commoners. Then at her home she will familiarize you with today’s typical but well-appointed Bengali kitchen, where she will let you take part in cooking, and finally treat you with a full course of authentic Bengali meal, enriched with both East and West Bengal specialties. And throughout this stretch she will keep you focused with interesting facts and nuances about the past and present of East and West Bengal food culture, with a special emphasis on the significance of the Bengali widows’ role in development of the art of cooking.