Fish and Seafood

Ilish Shukto (Hilsa with a Medley of Vegetables)

Ilish Shukto ? My cousin-in-law gawks at me in stunned disbelief. A pristine shimmering-silver ilish rests ...

I remember a rainy afternoon when Mashi cooked Ilish, an overnight catch from Kolaghat which the fishmonger ...

I wake up to the pitter-patter of raindrops on my window pane. A grey morning. A truant sun playing ...

There's something romantic about a grey overcast morning. The sulking clouds. The drunken gales. The ...

I potter around my sun-washed kitchen, gazing at the luscious Bay prawns that rest patiently on the black ...

The fledgling bottlegourd vine by the cowshed is mischievous. Every time a punctilious Manikkaka trains her ...

The heat has been excruciating over the last couple of days. The humidity punishing. It's a just a week to ...

My fishmonger gets me a delectable catch of pabda this spring-is-melting-into-summer morning. As fresh as ...

When my fishmonger calls me this morning to inform that he has (finally !!) managed to get fresh shol maach, ...

The incredibly bony virtually inedible gada of the prized chitol maach rests on a kansa thala in front of ...

The laal shaak resting pretty on the kitchen counter draws me to a listless afternoon decades back. The ...

Needless to reiterate, we Bengalis love our fish. And over hundreds of years, we have been intrepid ...