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Calcutta cravings in Watford Junction!

A totally surreal experience tasting beloved snacks, savoury main course stalwarts and Bengali mishti or sweets in Hertfordshire! There are many menu items you won’t find in a UK Indian restaurant here and her Kolkata Biryani is the best I’ve had in the UK so far.

Sharmistha Paul, founder of @calcuttacrravingsuk and catering company @sharmiskkitchenuk has the most remarkable story too.

A north Calcutta girl from Bagbazar, she was a banker before finding herself in Cornwall with her husband. She started catering for the school mums and teachers before being supported by the farmers market association to run stalls.

She continued when they moved to London, and has now opened a simple cafe with her top sellers alongside her successful catering business. She’s just received two outstanding achievement awards at the @britishcurryawards.

I can tell you we loved the food, which is a specific mix of Anglo Indian, Bengali and Mughlai treats popular in cafes and cabins of Kolkata. it nearly made us weep.

Sharmi is a serious talent even making her own Bengali sweet shop and dessert delicacies. Malpua for instance is something our elders made for special occasions! And I used to eat a kilo of kheer kadam in a sitting as I’ve said on @bbcradio4 The Kitchen Cabinet.

Sharmi has been following me for years, which was all very sweet, and I gave her some tough talking business advice. Unfortunately in today’s world you have to take control of your storytelling and social media, which can often trump true talent.

She’s now on it. But meanwhile, we should do what we can to support hospitality entrepreneurs with incredible talent who are doing exciting and interesting things.

If you’re not in Hertfordshire, Watford junction is a mere 15 minutes from London Euston. Hope you can try her wares soon. Thank you @reshomm for the invite. I’ll be back as a paying punter urgently!

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A global sourcing specialist , a digital marketer and I, the interior designer, walked into a lunch. Not a joke, just a Thursday, and not one of us stayed in our lane.

Nobody guarded their expertise. The moment you stop protecting your corner of the table, ideas start moving forward: a procurer becomes a set designer, a marketing note becomes a colour palette, and I became, briefly, a strategist.

None of us planned this. Good ideas rarely wait for an agenda, they just need people willing to talk.

By the end of lunch, the marketer had a campaign idea she hadn’t walked in with, I had a supplier lead, and the global sourcing specialist had a marketing angle for a client who’d been asking for one.

This is what synergy actually looks like: not a slide with overlapping circles, but three people at one table, refusing to stay in their own circle.

Pleasure first. Ideas flow. Business, somehow, always follows.

#womeninbusiness #foodforthought #interiordesigner

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Jamai Shoshti this year quietly turned into a full blown production. What began as a simple wish, to recreate in my café, the kind of celebration I grew up watching my mother and grandmother host, back home became something much bigger. Think adda flowing as freely as the food, laughter echoing across tables, and a room full of impeccably dressed jamais and bous and multigenerational families.

There is something deeply comforting about carrying traditions across continents and watching them come alive in a new setting. And this one felt special because of all of you who showed up, made the effort, and became part of it.

It started an idea, quickly moved to shopping for thalis and finally maach, mangsho and vegetable shopping. A heartfelt thank you to my incredible kitchen team who worked tirelessly behind the scenes to make everything come together seamlessly. And special thanks to @soumikkumar11 from Proconnect who worked relentlessly, handling the marketing technology and creatives, and @reshomm who continues to guide us with her insight into the U.K. market, with the perfect mix of professionalism and friendship.

Already thinking about how we top this next year.

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As always, London was perfect. Three amazing book events, tons of family time, incredible food (mostly Indian), a little art, a little shopping, somehow even perfect weather, a football match, and the company of warm, loving DC and London friends . ❤️ @nayanikawrites @muktaskaul @banerji2 @bloomsburyindia @lotuslaneliterary @reshomm @doctor_anisha @anitamoorthy @sanjay_sharmaiwa

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The time of the year when the traditional me dresses up in colours and dives into the mood of festival fun and happiness ! It’s all about meeting friends and family, feeling special, enjoying moments of togetherness ….
Yes dressing up for the occasion does add the extra warmth and happiness ….
Thanks @simielondon for adding the extra sparkle with your collection and @londondurgapuja for including me in the puja madness !!
#festival #festivalfashion #happiness #positivity #thankful #durga #hampstead #funtimes

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That time of the year I can be found clutching 5m of silk handloom for dear life in case it slips off in front of a demon-slaying goddess among the best of London’s Bengali Society.

I’m not religious but I totally get behind Durga Puja. What’s not to love about a goddess created especially to slay a vile demon no man could?

A symbol of strength, celebration of good over evil and plenty of community camaraderie makes it an annual calendar event worth making the trip in finery on the London Underground for.

This year my bundles couldn’t and didn’t any to make it. I have prayed for common sense and wisdom to return to them prayed. But it was so cute to see young ones perform dance, music and more in a cultural show. A certain someone (cough: my niece) was enthralled and I hope, inspired to have a go.

Wonderful to hang with my lovely friends and family, as well as meet many talented members of the food writing and hospitality world. The home made vegetable chop by @reshomm was excellent. And we packed chicken cutlet, kati rolls to go.

I didn’t stay for Bhog, the blessed post prayer meal, but it might be cooking in my kitchen for the kids and me later.

Well done to @londondurgapuja for bringing us all together again and if you’re celebrating, Shubho Pujo!

#londondurgapuja #durgapuja2025 #probashibangali

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Last week the NW3 and NW8 women got to have a taste of Face Yoga and how to take care of our face and neck muscles (which are completely neglected by most of us)….
A huge thanks to Naz from @reviverooms for taking her time out and spending time with each of the women in this exclusive event ……I have started practising the exercises already to energise and activate the dormant muscles of my face and jaws !!!
Thanks to Victoria @victoriaotamiri @savywellness to help me organise this…it couldn’t have been possible without you 🥰
And finally thanks to all the lovely women who took time out of their busy schedule on a Thursday morning ….we will make more such events together 😌☺️☺️
Please check Naz and the videos on her insta page @reviverooms for those who are interested to know about Face Yoga 🧘 Her clinic is at Duke Street where she offers personalised beauty treatments of massages, facials, peels…
#face #lookingafterme❤️ #faceyoga #womeninspiringwomen #nw3 #nw8 #nw3mums #womenpower💪🏾❤️👑 #holistic #wellness #health

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Before cooking even became a thing…

Some books don’t just live on shelves. Their pages, worn thin and stained with spices, carry the fragrance of kitchens past, filled with laughter, whispered secrets, and love scribbled in the margins. On #WorldBookDay, here are a few that shaped my own love of cooking and storytelling:

The International Cookery Book (Duliajan Ladies Club) . My mother’s treasured copy from an era when “memsahibs” exchanged recipes across kitchen tables. It’s poem insisting the key to marital bliss lies in good cooking may not go down well these days but its Chicken Sandwich recipe alone is pure magic.

Balbir Singh’s Cookbook : Given by my father to my mother, inscribed: “Dear Manjoo, please help me, please learn to cook.” Rebound in Calcutta after years of heavy use, my page still opens naturally to the Tandoori Chicken recipe, the best I’ve ever made.

The NIAW Cookbook : A Calcutta institution. More than recipes, it’s a social register, mothers, aunties, prospective mothers-in-law, you could write a whole gossip column from these pages. My first ever recipe, Dhania Chicken, came from here, and it’s still a favourite.

The Calcutta Cookbook . The book that sparked my passion for storytelling through food. Co authored by Minakshi Das Gupta, whose restaurant Kewpie’s introduced home-style Bengali cooking long before it was trendy, and Jaya Chaliha, whose evenings of stories around food made me realise that dishes carry histories beyond taste. Both were friends of my parents - the tea connection!

Rannar Boi by Leela Majumdar. Authored by the legendary Bengali children’s writer Leela Majumdar, whose warm storytelling defined generations. This Bengali classic offers vague instructions - ekta” (a little), “andaj moto” (guesstimate). Her son, Ranjan Majumdar, was also Samin’s dentist, proof that in Calcutta, food, family, and stories are forever intertwined.

These books for me don’t just contain recipes but memories, of growing up, my life so far, live of food and the quiet magic that happens when ingredients and stories blend.

So, these are mine. What’s yours?

#WorldBookDay #MandirasKitchen #CookbookMemories

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Baran & Sindoor Khela at Hampstead Pujo

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Durga Puja week is upon us!!
Our doors at Hampstead Town Hall will be opening from 6pm on Wednesday 9th October for Bodhan Pujo & our first ever Anondomela!
Please check out posters for Pujo timings, Cultural Programmes, Shidoor Khela as well as our Bijoya Show on the 13th October. Also, please check our videos on the main page for any questions and queries you need answering.
We can’t wait to celebrate with you all!

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The one where the after-effects of #AbbaVoyage spill onto the platform - (to the utter mortification of the daughters) 😅🙈💞

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Join us for a great gig at Kings Cross Summer Sounds Festival on 16 August! #kingscrosssummersoundfestival

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