It may sound as if chutneys and huskies have little to do with one another. Improbably, they came together in my mind one cool January morning while I paused near a Pride of India, a grand flowering tree that makes up one of many species in Bengaluru’s Cubbon Park. I got home that husky-watching morning eager to sample the dried-fish …
Best of BBC Travel 2020 Indranil Mukherjee/Getty Images For hundreds of years, Koli fishermen have pegged Bombay duck on large racks by the sea to dry them in the sun This year, we published many inspiring and amazing stories that made us fall in love with the world. The landscapes of the Borderlands have remained wild, untamed and especially empty …
One of Jeslin Sleeba’s earliest and lasting food memories is watching her mother work a grinding stone, making chammanthi of dried prawns, shallots, coconut red chilli and salt. Jeslin grew up in Muvattupuzha, near Kochi, where unlike today, fresh fish was not accessible every day and so dried fish was used instead — fried or as chutney. “Demand is high …
