The heat is punishing to say the least. It’s early morning, yet the sun is at its repressive best. I toss ...
Fish and Seafood
Chhotomashir Sheem Bichi Koi Maach
The maacher baajar in our sleepy town is nothing to write home about. A row of make-shift decrepit stalls, ...
Whole Roasted Fish
It was somewhere in the pristine verdant slopes high up the Malaysian highlands. A nondescript shack. By a ...
Singapore Fish Head Curry
The first time S returned from Singapore and narrated to me, childlike excitement stark in his voice, his ...
Kachki Maacher Chorchori (Ganges River Sprats Curry)
Age is catching up fast on Grandma. She no longer spends long hours in the soot -blackened ancient kitchen, ...
Mourola Maacher Peyaji
My princess must have inherited her love for fish from her Grandfather, Grandma would inevitably comment to ...
Fish Florentine I Bhetki Florentine
It was a fog-laced chilly winter morning when S had suggested we head for breakfast to one of ...
Rita Aunty’s Prawn Temperado, the Anglo Indian Way
The phone rings for a while before the unmistakable baritone voice of Rita Aunty answers the call. Did I ...
Ila Mashir Golda Chingrir Korma
There is no one I know who is so full of joie de vivre and exudes as much positivity, even when faced with ...
Tel Koi
I have sulked all morning. It’s unacceptable and unfair, I have rehearsed the fervent pitch in ...
Bhapa Ilish
The man has brought home some absolute gorgeous Hilsa, D rattles on the phone, animated and impatient, ...
Moqueca (Brazilian Fish Stew)
We were enamored by the stories my sister-in-law returned with from her trip to Brazil. The indescribable ...












