In 1947, two men, both named Kundan, fled Peshawar during the bloody partition that carved Pakistan out of British India. They landed in Delhi and soon became partners in a restaurant called Moti Mahal serving food from the Punjab region. On this much their descendants agree. Where they diverge is on the question of which […]
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Onion Bhajiya Recipe for Diwali
At the home of the cookbook author Palak Patel, the days leading up to Diwali are spent cleaning her kitchen and preparing the numerous snacks and mithai, or sweets, they’ll deliver to friends and family for the South Asian festival of light. Her mother, Mala Patel, fries dried snacks, like Mathia, to fill giant frosting […]
Read MoreRoti Takes a New Form: Convenience Food
The chef Peter Prime has been eating roti all his life. But asked to define what exactly roti is, he laughed and launched into a long-winded answer. It could be a plain round of blistered bread, he said. Or the flaky version also known in his native Trinidad and Tobago as buss up shut. Or […]
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