From Guwahati guests will proceed to other smaller towns of Assam unravelling the various culinary delights of Assamese food. Discover the usage, nutrition value and health benefits of different local spices and ingredients like ginger, garlic, turmeric, chillies, black pepper, mustard, cumin, fennel, aniseed, caraway, bamboo shoot, herbs etc. Village and farm visits will give an insight into how these ingredients are grown and there will also be cooking classes with local experts to learn delicious local curries and other dishes.

From the town of Dibrugarh in Upper Assam guests will fly to Bagdogra and then will proceed to the Himalayan town of Darjeeling by car. Darjeeling is a hill station developed during the British Raj in India. Darjeeling boasts of some of the oldest restaurents in India serving great Anglo Indian dishes. Darjeeling is also famous for the tea gardens and Darjeeling Tea.

 

Special add on : Guests will be visiting tea gardens in Assam and Darjeeling and do tea tasting with experts.

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In the last leg of the tour, guests will travel to Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal and one of the oldest and most versatile cities of India. Known as the city of joy, Kolkata is a food lovers delight. Here guests will be hosted in the house of an expert Bengali homecook. But first your specialist guide will take you to a local market to see and know about the local vegetables and ingredients of Bengali food.

You will also do a street food tour and know about the various influences Bengali culture and food had from time to time.

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Assam lies in the Northeastern part of India which shares a boundary with China, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal. It is a river valley surrounded by the Eastern Himalayas. Due to its location, there has been many waves of migration in the past of different races. This has resulted in a diverse ethnic population today having equally diverse and interesting food habits united by the common ingredients found in the region. Assam is immensely fertile as a gift of the river Brahmaputra and an ecological hotspot resulting in the availability of various foods and ingredients, herbs and spices. The staple diet being rice, fish, vegetables and herbs, the people also savour a variety of meats like chicken, duck, pork, pigeon, goat etc. Cooking styles range from steaming, boiling, smoking, barbeque to normal frying and currying.