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 | 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,...
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 | Feb 26, 2026 | Food, Foodblog |
When we first made machher binuni kochuri, it felt familiar yet, the final result was quite different. We had already shared our classic machher kochuri on Pikturenama, the flaky, fish-stuffed delight that many of you still recreate at home. However, the braided...
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