20100126: Fishy Mangalore.....

My brother-in-law just returned to the US after a "India-visit" and was regaling us on all the Mangalorean delicacies showered on him - among them, also a "shevto" curry. I of course, couldn't help ask him, "...why? ...did you attend some funeral?" -- for in my memory, a shevto-curry was a must at the meal served to the funeral attendees at the oratory (bhuzovn) for which the close family returned to the house after the burial.

That was naughty of me! But it also set my memory travel back in years remembering the times (not at funerals, but at our own dining table meals at home) when I fought with my brothers and sisters for the 'peri" - the fish-eggs fried, and the "ganntt" which particularly is peculiar to only the Shevto (...or the Mullet as it is called in English)!

Not too long ago, on one of my own visits to Mangalore and while savouring to my heart's content the fishy delicacies of Mangalore, nostalgia had struck - and I had shot off an article for the Times of India. The piece - "Fishy Mangalore" was picked up by the web portal http://www.mangalorean.com/ --- a link to which I just found while trying to browse through the internet for more info on "shevto-curry". I am sharing the web-link to the article in the hope may be you will like it.
Mangalorean.Com- Serving Mangaloreans Around The World!

... Ladyfish), Sscannaki (kingclip), Yerlio (whitings – some call it silverfish too), Shevto ... And to match the sharpness of the chutneys, in fish it had to be attailly-kadi, which the ...

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