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Thanks for educating this typically ignorant American about some of the subtleties of Bengali culture. It's kind of coincidental, since I just helped out a friend with the recent North American Bengali conference here in Detroit (see www.nabc2007.org).
Also I'm wondering, since the writer prefers the milder taste of freshwater fish to the salties -- has the writer ever sampled fresh whitefish from Lake Superior?
Cooked properly it is sublime. Although pollution may do its dirty work eventually even way up north in God's Country, too.
Thanks for a very evocative article.
You made my mouth water and I have no experience with the cuisine you described.
Bengalis love their meals as well as protracted debates on the nuanced differences between the almost-innumerable varieties of fish and fish dishes. Hopefully that enthusiasm can be converted into as knowledgeable an approach to the ecological impacts on their favorite fish.
As an aside, I was amused to note that squid has not been incorporated into Indian dishes, and due to the low demand is sold at the fish market almost at cost (unlike Cambridge MA prices).
You had me at 'Bengali mythology', you lost me at 'my mother's kitchen'.
