This blog begins from a simple premise: food is not lifestyle content. It is material culture, and it carries historical evidence. What is divined symbolically in coffee grounds can be read concretely in diaspora dishes.

I am starting The Jewish Curry Culture Club as a space to explore Jewish history and diaspora – not as nostalgia, not as identity performance, but as a serious historical archive. Recipes, techniques, and ingredients are treated here as records of migration, law, economy, and survival, especially in places where written archives are thin or absent.

The focus of this blog is the Jewish world beyond Europe and the Middle East, particularly South and Southeast Asia: Cochin and Calcutta, Baghdadi India, Burma, Singapore, and Japan. These communities were shaped by trade........

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