HELLO. I AM REEMA.
Food stylist & traveler. Loves nature and healthy food, and good coffee!
Story behind this food blog
After more than decade of working in environmental/forestry & eco-tourism projects, while actively running a catering service of soups and salads called the Fearless Olive and writing on Archaeology and cultural heritage, this blog is an ode to all my love interests!
I took my love of food and archaeology one step forward by returning to school for another Masters in Heritage Management which helped me validate my passion. I studied in Greece, researching the super-food carob on the island of Crete & my research jump-started a campaign, that got carob inscribed in the National Inventory for Greece on Intangible Cultural Heritage. Back home in Dhaka, I continue working in the broader environment sector while I write sporadically.
This blog is a culmination of all that I love, with videos, podcasts and blogs, on everything history, archaeology – & of course food. It also serves as a small attempt to bring out the hidden treasures in the layered history of Bangladeshi cuisine and its place on the world’s food atlas.
Oh & just in case you might be interested… I love cats, steaming cups of chai (sans sugar!) and mystery novels!
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Cooking is about passion, so it may look slightly temperamental in a way that it’s too assertive to the naked eye.
Gordon Ramsay
Thank you for reading
I have a background in Environmental Sciences & have over a decade of working in forestry & eco-tourism projects. I did a Masters in Heritage Management to satiate my love of archaeology & have been published in foreign and local magazines, writing on food & archaeology. I am trying to re-start my website on Heritage foods and it will have a set of videos. My first video will be on the layered biscuit Bakarkhani, which has an interesting history (from the 1700s), spanning across India & Pakistan. Strangely, the wife biscuit from Guangzhou looks exactly like the bakarkhani & am interested in knowing any history about it. Back then travelers during the Mughal era traveled extensively so it is possible the shape was imitated but the original history got sidelined. So any interesting stories around it that have given rise to its myth, including pictures of where it is sold or any insights the local sellers might add.
