Beyond Babylon | Jewish Food Stories from Southeast Asia
Elli Benaiah, Khaja Zafarullah\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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The Jewish Dish That Converted
My previous essay was not about food.
But this one is.
And not just any food.
It’s about cholent.
For the uninitiated, I consider cholent one of the top five dishes that define the Jewish kitchen. Cholent is the east European iteration...
Teak
This essay is NOT about food.
It is also not about a recipe carried across the Indian Ocean in the pocket of a migrant, or a spice that changed its name as it crossed a border, or a dish that survived a diaspora by becoming indispensable t...
The Secret Life of Whey
Food history deserves better than viral certainty.
Recently I kept coming across posts claiming that Fanta was a Nazi invention.
That only gave me another reason to dislike it. I was never much of a “fan”ta anyway, because it always struc...
India's Ice Age
“Thus it appears that the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well.”
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854
“He who gives back at the first repulse and without striking the sec...
Mocha
Many know that mocha is espresso, steamed milk, and chocolate - a latte with chocolate added.
Mocha. Photo by The Spruce Eats
It is also a colour: warm brown, the shade of the drink, or the bean. Fewer know that what we call mocha is cle...
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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.
The Traveller, The Recipe Collector, and the Chef
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