: Bengali food is deeply influenced by Tagore, but not the one you think #IndiaNEWS In the Bengali cultural milieu, there are few things that haven’t been influenced by Rabindranath Tagore, the revered

Bengali food is deeply influenced by Tagore, but not the one you think #IndiaNEWS
In the Bengali cultural milieu, there are few things that haven’t been influenced by Rabindranath Tagore, the revered playwright, poet, philosopher and all-round renaissance man. Even food here has his imprint. An ardent cosmopolitan, Tagore’s culinary curiosity and love for kitchen experiments, blended with his globe-trotting lifestyle, bequeathed a food tradition that is a melting pot of influences.But influential as he may be, Rabindranath wasn’t the one who morphed the Tagore kitchen into an enduring lodestar with his progressivism. That role was played by his grandfather Babu Dwarkanath Tagore.An illustrious industrialist and a pioneer of the Bengal renaissance, Dwarkanath’s kitchen turned out some of the most opulent repasts in 19th century Calcutta, combining the best of Eastern and Western gastronomy. When he travelled to England in 1842, he was accompanied by three Hindu servants and a “Mussalman khansama�? whose curries and pillaw thrilled London’s gourmet circles. “Tagore’s khansama was a legend in his own right and was often consulted to teach the ‘Chef de Cuisine’ in several English households the art of making curries,�? wrote civil servant Kissory Chand Mitter in his 1870 Memoir of Dwarkanath Tagore. Such was the popularity of his cooking that his dishes came to be called “Dwarkanath Dishep�ˑ]�[�Y��X]��XY[ܙH

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