Thoughts & Facts

The northern part of our country has had a rich cultural past and what more can describe our habits & lifestyle other than food. Our food choices have always been parallel to our situation. In today's blog, we'll see how the invasion of Mughals from the North changed our food habits and created new dishes that originally aren't ours but have a lot of similarities.  When we talk about food from Northern India how can one not think about Indraprastha (during the Mahabharata period) which then changed into Shahjahanabad (during the Mughal period) which we today know as Delhi. Before, the Mughals came to India the major population of Delhi was comprised of Hindus of them majority were Pandits & Baniyas. Almost everyone was vegetarian, and meat was hardly present in our diet. It was the Mughals who brought to us the wide variety of delectable meat dishes be it the Biryani, Kebabs, etc. Now Delhi being the trade capital of our country had a wide variety of spices and item