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Gariahat Bajaar’s Shaak Maashis Can Always Predict My Dinner Menu

February 13, 2026
Srishti Dasgupta Sensarma

Golden pumpkin flowers, red roselles, magenta eggplants, and various shades of green everywhere you look. At Kolkata’s Gariahat Bajaar, shaak maashis bring a variety of winter greens foraged from the outskirts of the city.

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Events
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Chotomaach Potluck, Kolkata

September 8, 2022

Our first potluck in Kolkata revolved around small freshwater fish, a variety slowly slipping away from the region’s plates.

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Books on Food

On hunting the hilsa and mastering its bones

April 17, 2024
Samanth Subramanian

Shorshe ilish, perhaps the most popular technique of cooking hilsa, involves simmering and serving cuts of the fish in a mustard sauce so pungent that its wallop reaches right into your sinuses, writes Samanth Subramanian in this excerpt from Following Fish.

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