by Madhushree Basu Roy | Oct 5, 2026 | Food, Foodblog |
As a child, I loved looking at the sweets in the shop window. There was ilish maacher peti sondesh, aata sondesh, and so many others shaped like familiar things. So when I saw a potol mishti, I assumed it was sondesh too. Surely someone had shaped chhena to look like...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Aug 5, 2026 | Food, Foodblog |
Walk into almost any Bengali fish market today and you are likely to find a row of shiny rupchanda staring back at you. With its flat, disc-like body, silvery skin and distinctly pink belly, it is now a familiar sight. Yet, twenty or thirty years ago, rupchanda was...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Aug 4, 2026 | Food, Foodblog |
Pangash maach probably has the worst reputation in the fish market. I know of people who would rather buy the Vietnamese basa than a Pangash. Mention its name and you’ll almost always find someone dismissing it before they’ve even tasted it. Somewhere...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Jul 20, 2026 | Food, Foodblog |
The first time I remember hearing the name Nilontika was probably when I was in Class 6. We had a pond at our ancestral home, and one winter my grandfather had introduced what everyone around us called Lylontika spawns into it. Summer vacations were spent almost...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Jul 11, 2026 | Food, Foodblog |
Growing up in a Bangal home, eating all kinds of fish wasn’t a choice, it was just how we ate. Bangals are people who migrated from East Bengal, now Bangladesh, before and around the time of Partition. So our dining table was filled with aar, boal, magur,...
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