Most Bengali’s worth their salt will sing you paeans about their love of hilsa, or ilish as we call it. That love has been pretty detrimental for the fish though, as we have gone through populations of the fish, leaving it endangered as a species! Sadly, most Bengalis still do not acknowledge of that problem,…
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Continue ReadingI have had a love-hate relationship with kamranga or star fruit. As a child who loved anything sour, I loved kamranga. It was sour. Juicy. Looked beautiful. This love lasted till I was in standard VIII and had jaundice! One of the things prescribed to me was glasses of star fruit juice and the raw…