'Bashi' in Bengali is not as pejorative a word as stale in English. It more appropriately means aged - hinting at a homespun process of letting elements in any dish internally fraternize, and age, to eventually turn ambrosial. Trust in it led Bengalis to conceive 'Bashi-biye', a nuptial ceremony wishing a day old marriage appetite for life. In frame is 'bashi Luchi' wisely paired with as 'bashi Chatni', making a duo I never get enough of - a culinary antithesis of Midlife crisis, or, a wizened Gable romancing luscious Monroe in The Misfits. #uncookedwords
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