Food and Drink

Flavours of fusion

Parsis too, ever since they adopted India as their own land, have, as a community, constantly and quite consciously enriched their food through a process of deliberate fusion.

Their recipes are truly eclectic–a veritable cultural confluence-Hindu, Islamic, Iranian and European. Others too have been flirting with fusion off and on. Denizens of Old Delhi–notorious for their resistance to change–seem to have no problems with ishtew borrowed and soon transformed beyond recognition from the Firangee.

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