December 1, 2023

My earliest memory of using the kitchen stove goes back to my very happy childhood. I was three years old when I would stand on a stool and boil water (under the supervision of our cook, Parvati) to ‘make’ tea for my parents. Thus, the first thing I learnt to cook was tea. Parsis call tea choi, not chai, cha, or tea but choi. It is a very religious thing to the community, and there are wars about how to make it and what goes into it. My dad’s family was from Fort, the southernmost part

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Kurush Dalal

Kurush Dalal is an archaeologist with a PhD in Early Iron Age in Rajasthan. His interest in the early medieval period took him to excavations on the west coast of India. Kurush is Co-Director of the Salsette Explorations Project to document the archaeology of Mumbai from the medieval to the colonial period. Passionate about food, he inherited his mother's catering business, Katy's Kitchen, which he now manages. Kurush has combined his interests in culinary anthropology and food archaeology to create the popular The Studying Food Workshop. He lives in Mumbai.

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2 Comments

Indi Khanna
on December 3, 2023 at 7:34 pm •Reply

What an absolutely delightful read.
Loved it!
Thank you for sharing.
Indi
Netashwa
on December 3, 2023 at 8:21 pm •Reply

Such a lovely presentation. Nostalgic!