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Article and Location Photos by Victor Paul Borg Main Bazaar, Delhi Recipes: Spiced Fish Egg BallsTiger Prawns in Coconut Milk CurryWest Bengal Fish CurryWhole Fish in Mustard SauceFish in Tamarind Paste With unusual furtiveness and haste, Sanghamitra moved towards the door as she announced that she was going to the West Bengal market round the corner. Earlier I had told …
By Dave DeWitt An Introduction to Curries Recipes: Quick Curry Powder (Bafat) Indian Minced Meat Curry (Keema Bafat) Pork Curry Gurkha-Style Moghlai Chicken Curry (Nimbu Masala Murgh) Indian Chile Vendors, ca. 1880 The word curry refers to both a spice mixture and a style of cooking. The spice mixture usually contains chile peppers in the form of …
By Dave DeWitt Cultivation, History, and Culinary Use Recipes: Mango and Coconut Chile Chutney Madras Fried Chile Fritters (Molagai Bajii) Moghul Chicken Dilruba Jungli Mans Indian Chile Vendors, ca. 1880 India is one of the largest producers of chile peppers in the world. The Times of India Directory and Yearbook for 1983 listed total acreage at …
Story and Photos By Harald Zoschke Calabria is not only the southernmost tip of the Italian boot, it is also one of the hotbeds of European chilehead culture. So it’s no wonder that — besides plenty of “hot” dishes and products — a peperoncino museum opened doors here in the summer of 2002. It claims to be the only one …
Story and Photos by Harald Zoschke Calabria occupies the “boot tip” of the Italian peninsula south of Naples. The warm Mediterranean Sea that flows around Italy’s southern tip between Calabria and Sicily, as well as 300 estimated sunshine days per year, determine the mild climate that lets chile peppers prosper here. The hot pods – called peperoncini in Italy – …
