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 | Jul 3, 2026 | Food, Foodblog |
Folui, Foli or Pholui as many Bengalis pronounce it, is one of those fish that seldom get the attention it deserves. Go to a traditional fish market in Bengal during the monsoon and you might come across a basket of these lean, silvery fish lying quietly besides the...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | May 21, 2025 | Food, Foodblog |
Bengalis and their macher jhol — it’s an undying love. From the mighty ilish to the small mourala, we cook fish in a hundred different ways. But when it comes to everyday comfort, a simple rui macher jhol with rice is hard to beat. It’s light, satisfying, and carries...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | May 9, 2025 | Food, Foodblog |
If there’s one thing Tagore didn’t write, it’s a cookbook—and how much we wish he had! Imagine a collection of recipes as layered as his poetry. It would have been a bestseller for generations. His love for food was as profound as his literary genius, and his...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Jan 29, 2022 | Food, Foodblog |
It is a known fact that Bengalis cannot do without their mustard paste. Although, contrary to popular notion, there are many Bongs who do not prefer mustard. Well, all that aside, no celebratory meal is complete with a shorshe or mustard-based curry. Fish wrapped in...
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