A quintessential delicacy
The battle over the origin of Rosogolla is seemingly over as both West Bengal and Odisha have been accorded GI status for their own different versions in texture and taste.
The battle over the origin of Rosogolla is seemingly over as both West Bengal and Odisha have been accorded GI status for their own different versions in texture and taste.
Bengal’s GI application had said the rosogolla had been born as the granular danadar or ‘delta rosogolla’ which was modified into the soft, spongy rosogolla that was first seen in Fulia, Nadia, and later went to Bagbazar in Kolkata in the 1860s, said Dipanjan Dey, a research worker on sweets and a college teacher in Krishnagar.
