\ud83d\udc49 Telling the untold food stories of the Baghdadi Jewish diaspora — and exploring the Jewish Curry Culture worldwide — through recipes, memory, and migration, from Baghdad to Calcutta and the kitchens of Southeast Asia.
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Holding Its Shape
Last week I heard a radio interview with Sara Levi, who was speaking about her forthcoming cookbook of Romaniote recipes.¹ She recalled how, as a little girl, her mother would send her to construction sites with a cup to collect a little of...
The Seventh Species
Dates are the ‘seventh species’.
Canaan is known as the land flowing with milk and honey. But the honey named among its seven species is traditionally understood as date honey.
At Sukkot, the ancient biblical pilgrimage festival of ingath...
Sumac in Bombay
Chicken Sumak: chicken, onions, celery and sour seasoning over bread, in a recipe Mavis Hyman records as coming from Bombay.
There is a tiny recipe on page 122 of Mavis Hyman’s Indian-Jewish Cooking. It is called Chicken Sumak, and it ends...
The Festive Duck
I grew up with the food of Calcutta’s Jews, but I had never heard of hanse mukmura.
Calcutta by Clipper, a Pan American World Airways travel poster from 1951, depicts the Pareshnath Jain Temple. (Courtesy @sticknobillsposters)
Hanse appe...
Of Madras
To me, Madras had always meant only two things: curry powder and checked handkerchiefs.
My father kept Madras handkerchiefs. I have some of them still.
I grind my own curry powder, so I have never been attracted by store-bought curry po...
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Writer & culinary historian exploring Jewish food from Baghdad to Shanghai. Uncovering the lost Asian Jewish kitchen — where coconut milk, turmeric and kosher meet. Creator of Beyond Babylon.
I write and teach the food and food cultures of MENA, Singapore and Malaysia. My Substack, however, is devoted mainly to my long, nostalgic culinary affair with Singapore and Malaysia, with the odd detour when I feel like it.
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