Beyond Babylon | Jewish Food Stories from Southeast Asia
Elli Benaiah, Khaja Zafarullah, Azlin\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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Bird Food
This essay was triggered by a discussion in a family WhatsApp group.
My cousin had posted something about the Jewish dietary laws governing birds. Buried in it was a reference to an old German Jewish custom: in Frankfurt and Halberstadt, t...
Pass the Ketchup
I made myself lunch today, and almost instinctively reached for that Heinz ketchup bottle in the fridge. As I held it, I wondered what it is about vinegar, sugar and tomato that makes food taste better, and why it was ketchup that became th...
Iraqi Moussaka
A new Iraqi Jewish cookbook arrived, and I am in it.
David Carmi’s Iraqi Jewish Cookbook, the book in which I first encountered a dish called Ingriyi.
Somewhere in its pages is also a Baghdadi-Indian dish I contributed - spayty - my own...
Before Hormuz Carried Oil, It Carried Dinner
The Strait of Hormuz from orbit: the narrow hairpin between the Persian Gulf and the open ocean, with Oman's Musandam peninsula at lower right. Whoever controlled this passage could tax everything that moved through it. (NASA)
Whenever the...
Can Rice Farming Be Fixed?
My grandmother’s method assumed water. Rinse off the loose starch, fry briefly, cover to a centimetre above the grain, boil, then cook over low heat until done. So does almost every pot of rice. And much of the grain that reaches that pot h...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
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
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.
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