Keeping tradition alive: Carvalho Sweets' 80-year journey at Bandra Fair
Updated On: 13 September, 2023 02:23 PM IST | Mumbai | Nascimento Pinto
The Carvalhos - Antonio, Josefina and Amanda are as busy as can be this Bandra Fair as they have set up their stall yet again. Set up by Antonio’s parents in the 1940s, he is busy making Goan sweets and loves every bit of it during this time of the year
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Antonio Carvalho`s family has been putting up a stall at Bandra Fair for over 80 years on the Mount Mary steps. Photo Courtesy: Amanda Carvalho
Antonio Carvalho is busy moulding the boondi laddoos when his daughter Amanda passes the phone to him to chat with this writer on a hectic Monday evening. It is only one of many things he has made during the day with the help of his wife Josefina, who has been helping him for the last one week getting ready for Bandra Fair. He shares, “We started making the sweets 10 days before Bandra Fair started by making the channa atta, mixing sugar to make the kadio bodios and all that.” They are joined by their daughter once she returns from work before she takes over the stall. “On Saturday, we were awake till 3 am, and woke up at 4 am, so we had only one hour sleep,” adds the Bandra resident.
The family is continuing a legacy that goes back to more than 80 years ago when Carvalho`s mother, who first set up a stall at Bandra Fair at Mount Mary`s Basilica in the 1940s. The Goan family, who settled down in Bandra before that, has been hand-making different kinds of sweets like kadio bodios, sugar coated cashews, peanut jaggery chikki, boondi and sev laddoos, as well as Goan specials like doce, dodol, pinag, Bolinas, Bath cake, and even Prawn Balchao.
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