Food Festivals

West Bengal is one of the states of India known for its varied and exquisite dishes. People of Bengal love food; it is a part of their culture. Especially during festivals Bengali's cook special traditional dishes for their relatives and friends. Food Festivals are also organized to promote different types of cuisines in the state. Food festivals are very common in Kolkata.

The famous hotel in Kolkata, Hotel Hyatt Regency conducted food festival by inviting the restaurant Goa Portuguese and Culture Curry. Food festivals are organized by the established restaurants of the state. ITC Sonar Bangla Sheraton and Towers also conducts food festivals. The motive behind these food festivals are just not to boost their business but to give a chance to the food loving people of Bengal to enjoy the varied Indian cuisines.

Especial occasions like Durga Puja, Holi, Diwali, Poila Baisakh are celebrated by cooking special traditional Bengali foods. People who cannot cook at home can enjoy these delicacies at the food festivals. Shakaranti is a festival celebrated all over India and is famous in Bengal for the dishes like Gokul Pithe, Doodh Puli, Patisapta, Malpua. Several varieties of sweets are very popular in Bengali cuisine, which are made from milk and cottage cheese. Few sweet delicacies of Bengal that can be enjoyed in these food festivals are ‘Rasogullas’, ‘gulab jamuns’, ‘chenar payesh’, ‘malai sandwich’, ‘chena murkhi’, and ‘rajbogh’. Bengali food is incomplete without the mention of wide range of dishes prepared from fish namely bhapa illish, bhetkir paturi, chingrir malai curry, kakrar jhal, muri ghonto etc.