Macher Jhol

Chitol Maacher Jhol (Chitol Fish Curry)

What is a nation ? Grandma ruminated, her eyes staring listlessly at the distant horizon, her voice choked ...

My kitchen has been a mad frenzy all week, I have been whipping up my favorite Assamese ...

Manikkaka looks up anxiously at the charcoal-scarred sky. It is barely nine am this June morning, the first ...

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

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

This is the story of a fairytale romance, the princess of the water falling for an unassuming plebian of the ...

The sizzling sun has disappeared behind a grey veil of ominous nimbus. There's a lull. An uncanny calm. I ...

Idle ruminations as I cook my Ilish Begun er Jhol this morning- In the universe of cooking, almost ...

Its often joked that the Bengali gastronome travels the world, but returns home to savour his maacher jhol ...