The royal treat
A Shah Jahan-era cookbook takes us back to a time when food was art.
by Arundhati Ray
Aug 02, 2019
2 minutes
A book that claims to document "recipes from Shah Jahan's cookbook" creates a high degree of expectation amongst interested readers. Happily for them, Salma Yusuf Husain's The Mughal Feast: Recipes from the Kitchen of EmperorShah Jahan, a transcreation of Nuskha-e-Shahjahani, the handwritten Persian recipe
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