Winter Wonderland
We make memories of everything we come across as children and then we use and reuse them as we get older. We made the good and the bad associations with little things that decide whether we want to do/feel them again or not in our adulthood. This is called cognitive psychology that get's built very early on in life. Explanation of that will get very dry and boring if scientific language is used, I have a better way of explaining it, through the language of Gastronomy. Very often we associate life's happenings with the food that was available to us at a point in life. We Bengalis have great associations with all seasons of the year, whether it's mangoes or kanthal (jackfruit), patishapta or narkel naru(coconut laddoos), ilish mach(hilsa) or kankra(crabs), they all herald a different time of the year. Winters in Calcutta happen only for a limited time and as such they are associated with picnics in parks around the city, a lot of badminton and a trip to the Zoo if there are a...
