{"id":297,"date":"2015-03-01T07:45:01","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T02:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cynthiasiegel.net\/?p=297"},"modified":"2015-06-09T21:24:25","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T15:54:25","slug":"mishty-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cynthiasiegel.net\/?p=297","title":{"rendered":"Mishty Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Please forgive me the transgression of diverting us from all things clay sculptural, and indulge me in a bit o’discourse regarding one of my favorite parts of Bengali culture – Mishty.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mishty<\/em>\u00a0is the Bengali word for sweet<\/em> and is also the word for a dizzying variety of sweet foods that are made with nuts and\/or milk products combined with spices and other flavorings. \u00a0Mishty shops are everywhere in Kolkata, and are a cause for wonder— if one stops to think about the sheer output of sweets in relation to the number of people available to eat them! \u00a0In any case, it’s not long into a\u00a0conversation with a Bengali before they assert the superiority of Bengali sweets over all others. \u00a0\u00a0While I won’t comment any more about that, I will definitively say that mishty are delicious!!<\/p>\n

I favored one shop in particular, which was on the way to a studio where I worked\u00a0occasionally. \u00a0The name is\u00a0Balaram and Mullick’s<\/a>, as pictured below, at the Bhawanipore location where they have been in business since 1885.<\/p>\n

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Mishty Magic since 1885<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The store manager and great-grandson of the founder.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Fresh kulfi (ice cream) is served with a variety of toppings.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Always full of customers \u00a0\"DSC_0171\"<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Oh, yum.<\/p>\n

Rasgullah, sandesh, kheer, chamcham, chenna, chandra, kalakund, gulab jamun, ladoo —even in seven months of living here, I fear that there will not be enough time to try everything. \u00a0 I have made a solemn promise to myself to learn to make the mishty doi (sweet yogurt) when I return to Santa Cruz. \u00a0For the rest, I’ll just need to return to Kolkata!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Please forgive me the transgression of diverting us from all things clay sculptural, and indulge me in a bit o’discourse regarding one of my favorite parts of Bengali culture – Mishty. Mishty\u00a0is the Bengali word for sweet and is also the word for a dizzying variety of sweet foods that are made with nuts and\/or … Continue reading Mishty Magic<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[113,115,25,18,14,26,24,111,112,17,114],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ballaram-and-mullicks","tag-bengali-sweets","tag-calcutta","tag-clay","tag-httpwww-cynthiasiegel-com","tag-fulbright-nehru","tag-kolkata","tag-mishty","tag-mishty-doi","tag-sculpture","tag-sweets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cynthiasiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cynthiasiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cynthiasiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cynthiasiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cynthiasiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/cynthiasiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":888,"href":"http:\/\/cynthiasiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions\/888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cynthiasiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cynthiasiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cynthiasiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cynthiasiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}