I often wonder if a flavor can be an inheritance. Sometimes it comes as a gift that was always meant to be yours.

For the Kashmiri Pandit community, their identity has always been tied to the family and the kitchen. It was there, amidst the steam of the wood fires and the rhythmic pounding of spices, that their stories were told. But history shifted, and hearths were left behind. As they moved across borders, the specific, delicate alchemy of the Kashmiri Pandit cuisine—the precise bloom of Heeng in mustard oil, the cool velvet of Saunf-Saunth scented yogurt—began to thin... Read More