Pride is faith

“Give me some prose food too,
Obligation to find their match in the verse.
Even so, owning one is still beyond the reach of the average person.
Zeno, the best home of desire is in Rasna. ”
-Invitation, Rabindranath Tagore

Mongpur Surel. One afternoon last April. Although the people of the plains roast in the heat of Boishakh, the weather in the Mongpu hills is pleasant. Even on such a beautiful hilly afternoon, Maitreyi Devi does not have much time. What a matter! But what about Rabindranath that day?Rabindranath Tagore) That day is coming? Uh oh he got up in this house a week ago. But what is such a busyness? Because, all of a sudden, the boyishness of Rabibabu has resurfaced. And Maitreyi Devi has to fulfill all the desires of those boys. What did Rabibabu do? He will feed everyone with marmalade. Everyone was shocked to hear such whims. No one has ever seen such a bizarre recipe in Cosmin Kale. What is the point of tasting? Everyone was surprised and said- “Marble with marmalade?”

Rabindranath Tagore, of course, has no hesitation in these questions. He replied like a child, “Isn’t it?” Very delicious delicacy. Don’t bring umbrellas. At one time, I used to say that I used to spread a good roof, but I used to cover the table with marmalade. “
Therefore, the search began for Chatur. But the barley husk did not match in the forest hill country. At the end of the cover was arranged. Rabindranath Tagore said – “It will be quite.” Then Rabibabu began to apply marmalade, golden syrup, ginger juice, milk and banana butter on the roof for about half an hour. Maitreyi Devi added jokingly- “Why is your garlic left out? Don’t even drink a little onion juice! ”

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“But? Try it once, ”replied Rabindranath Tagore.
In the evening the roof was finished. Now it’s time to share it with everyone. Rabibabui took charge. The plate is divided into plates. But everyone realized that the taste is not pleasant at all. Rabindranath asked Maitreyi Devi – “What kind?”
Maitreyi Devi gave an enigmatic answer- “Excellent! That’s all there is to it. “
Rabindranath could easily catch such a wife’s cheap cunning. Buss, then the boy, like a human being, puts all the blame on the roof – “Go to the roof of your roof, the fault of the roof, otherwise it will not be good!”
Therefore, the next day, as ordered by Rabibabu, barley was fried and powdered. Again in the evening Rabibabu sat on the roof. Even though the roof changed, the taste did not change that day. The food juice that is eaten is an experiment or food juice immersed in caviar, but in the blood of the Tagore family.

“I throw the whole milk in the milk, in which the kadali dali,
With the message in it –
The sound of hoops hoops all around quiet,
The ant cries and leaves. “
Many are familiar with this poem. Rabibabu wrote in his childhood. However, Rabindranath is probably not the pioneer of Tagore’s house in the creation of such food-rich Kavyaras. Rabibabu’s elder brother Dwijendranath was also possessed of this quality. Dwijendranath wrote in the second serge of ‘Gumph-attack Kavya’-
“Chew-sucking-lehya-drink is very delicious
People in Bhunj forget sorrow and grief.
Mashal Kota was hit by a mortar
The banging is endless.
Saurabh is wandering there day and night
Crazy to get upset.
One-width grill, capital on the front
And it does not go back.
Then arrived, nominated by Luchi-Monda,
Fruits in the next phase.
On a large silver plate, the cook pours Brahman,
Lots and lots of meat polao.
What is the quality of goat’s bones, it leads to heartburn
Who will understand its dignity. ”

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Let’s peek once in the inner courtyard of Thakur’s house. Like the women of almost all the aristocratic families of that time, the women of Thakurbari used to gather on the roof after lunch to gossip. At that time, if you turn around a little on the roof of Jorasanko, you can see the corrosive lemon cut in the sun in a corner. Two or four daughters-in-law are making pills from a pot full of kalai bata and giving them to the sun. In one corner, raw mango has been cut into slices and allowed to make amsi. Mango juice is being stored in small and large stone molds of different sizes. The sun-eaten mustard oil is making the pickles delicious. Keya is being prepared.

Seba Jyotidada got married. At home came Rabindranath’s Bouthakuran Kadambari. Rabibabu himself has admitted that Kadambari could cook well. And Robi’s favorite position to cook bouthakuran? Panta smeared with chilli with shrimp.
When Rabindranath married Mrinalini, his wife was fond of cooking as diverse as Rabindranath. Manakchur jillipi, yogurt malpo, sweet made with ripe mango, chindar puli all made Mrinalini at the whim of Rabindranath. Once Mrinalini made a kind of sweet on the day of holy Baishakh. The name is ‘Elojhelo’. Rabindranath liked it a lot. But such an awkward name for such a delicious sweet! Rabindranath changed his name. The new name is ‘Paribandha’. Elojhelo is not very popular in today’s sweet shops. It’s kind of like a sweet and sour taste on the tongue. Elojelo’s recipe was found in an old cookbook. Absolutely short recipe. In short, boil two cups of sugar in one and a half cup of water and mix three or four small cardamom powder. In a bowl, mix salt, flour, white oil, black cumin and mix well. Now cut the dough from the dough with a knife. Then press it by hand and bring it to a certain shape. Then fry it in white oil in a pan and dip it in hot syrup for a while.

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When it comes to the invention of cooking in the house of Tagore, what does Hemendranath and Nipmayi’s daughter Prajnasundari say or forget! On Rabindranath’s fiftieth birthday, he made a new kind of sweet – ‘Kabisambardhana’ Barfi. What was that sweet ingredient? Cauliflower, coconut milk, almonds, raisins, saffron leaves. Gold and silver foil wrapped over sweets.

After reading so much, the first thing that comes to mind is that Rabindranath was probably a glutton. Perhaps this is not true. Rabindranath was a foodie. But he is Mitahari. It seems reasonable to say that it is a snack. Almost all the people who have come in contact with Rabindra have witnessed Rabindranath. Speaking of his childhood, Rabindranath mentioned the stingy nature of the servants while serving food.

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If Rabindranath is a foodie, then what is his favorite food? Rabindranath did not write anything about it separately.
However, when this rabibabui writes a poem about putting amsattva in milk or connects the mood of Damodar Seth with the mood – murkir moya, vhetki fry, boiled patty or crab egg, curiosity, what did rabibabui tell his food juice by shielding Damodar Seth! Curiosity is aroused even when, while eating fish in a boat, Ramesh says- “Not a dream, not a delusion, not a delusion, this is the best of Rohit’s fish wrapped in Rui fish”. This curiosity came to an end when Rabindranath wrote ‘Parinaya Mangal’ at the wedding of Surendranath’s daughter Jayashree.
“If you don’t have a good day,
Expensive is spent on ripe rui fish,
The fragrance of Kaliya will kill the soul,
Will the two of them just sit on the two floors during the meal?
Remember the name of this greedy poet.

At that time when I was talking so much about Rabindranath’s food juices, the verandah in front of that famous Tetla house in Jorasanko has been covered for so long.
For Rabindranath, cooking was not just a means of filling one’s stomach. Like literature, Rabindranath considered cooking as an art form.
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Anandabazar Patrika, 21st April 2018