On a food delivery app, the place re-introduced me to rice varieties like banshkathi, jeerakathi and miniket
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Rice and laze are two things I can’t let go of. Maybe that’s why my favourite kind of nap is ‘bhaat-ghum’ — an endearment for siesta, after polishing off a plateful of rice with tasty sides, in the casual Bangla lexicon. But I was unhappy to not find parboiled rice varieties I have grown up eating in Mumbai. Recently, I discovered Mishti Affair, a Bandra-based outlet for ingredients that smell like home. On a food delivery app, the place re-introduced me to rice varieties like banshkathi, jeerakathi and miniket. Along with such parboiled varieties, they also source Jharna ghee, bori and dhoka.
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