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Indian cuisine

A busy lunchtime at the Daryaganj restaurant, which claims to own the recipe for the original butter chicken and has been sued for copyright infringement by a rival Delhi restaurant.

Who invented butter chicken? Dueling claims battle it out in an Indian high court.

Food

The grandsons of two now-deceased business partners are fighting over claims of whose grandfather invented the beloved Indian dish, butter chicken.

a vendor at a poultry market in India

The myth of a vegetarian India

a collage of photos from Kashyap's dinner

Cross-border meals connect people from countries in conflict

Food
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Across America, many Christmas menus have decidedly immigrant roots

Food
A young boy drinks tea in the early morning inside a train at Agra Cantt Railway Station in Agra, India.

Half the fun of taking the train in India is the food

Culture
Roti

There’s roti, and then there’s Trinidadian roti. And it’s awesome

Lifestyle & Belief

Food has a way to transport you to a place. For Trinidadians far from home, the dish of choice is Roti — but it’s not just any old bread.Food has a way to transport you to a place. For Trinidadians far from home, the dish of choice is Roti — but it’s not just any old bread.

Cooks Beddo and Bimla, make rotis (a wheat flat bread) at a government school in a village called Bawani Khera, in south central Haryana. The menu for the day is roti and a vegetable dish.

Here’s why kids — and parents — in India love the country’s school lunch program

Lifestyle & Belief

India’s mid-day meal program is the largest free school lunch program in the world. It has its critics, but it makes kids want to go to school.India’s mid-day meal program is the largest free school lunch program in the world. It has its critics, but it makes kids want to go to school.

Bacon wrapped with naan bread at Dishoom cafe in London

Indian food in London goes upscale and creative — naan, bacon and chili tomato jam anyone?

Lifestyle & Belief

Food writer Steve Dolinsky is just back from London, where he has been sampling some seriously upscale Indian food. Gone is the $7.95 all-you-can-eat buffet. The British capital now has more than half a dozen Indian places with coveted Michelin stars. Bacon wrapped with naan. Need we say more? Food writer Steve Dolinsky is just back from London, where he has been sampling some seriously upscale Indian food. Gone is the $7.95 all-you-can-eat buffet. The British capital now has more than half a dozen Indian places with coveted Michelin stars. Bacon wrapped with naan. Need we say more?

Haleem a Ramadan food that crosses religious boundaries in India

Lifestyle & Belief

Ramadan just ended and with it the period of daylight fasting observed by most Muslims around the world. In India especially, the fast is often broken with a dish called haleem, a sort of meat porridge that manages to bridge the religious divide and appeal to all manners of Indians.

British cry foul over shortage of trained curry chefs in the U.K.

Global Politics

New immigration policies are making it increasingly more difficult for British restaurants to bring in trained curry chefs from India and Pakistan. To many, curry is the national dish of the United Kingdom.