“Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are,” declared Brillat-Savarin, that most eloquent of Frenchmen. Had he the fortune of traveling eastward, past Constantinople, through the Persian highlands, down the Silk Road and into the courts of Awadh, one suspects he would have revised his maxim entirely. For in the Indian subcontinent, biryani does not merely reveal what one is. … Continue reading Of Grains & Grandeur A Dispatch from the World of Biryani Governor Sahab, Radisson Blu Nashik