Researchers investigate variety of Biryani cooking styles across India |
New Delhi: Researchers from IIIT Hyderabad have investigated the regional diversity across India in ingredients, preparation and presentation of biryani. The research on Biryani is part of a wider effort build an Indian Food Map to capture the regional variations of food across the country. Indian food is deeply tied to the culture, and the effort is aimed at visualising and cataloguing the differences in ingredients, tastes and cooking styles across the country, including mapping raw materials, spice preferences and regional flavours. Lead of the project, CV Jawahar explains, “Different parts of the country have different types of food, or sometimes similar dishes but different ways of cooking them.”
The researchers have authored a paper titled ‘How Does India Cook........