Les Writes

  This piece was written in November 2025 and published in the online magazine Bengal Soulfully Yours https://www.soulfulbengal.com/stories/inside-anglo-indian-kitchen .  Here is the extracted content from the site, without the beautiful photos and tables which add a lot of value to the piece. Inside the Anglo-Indian kitchen: Flavours of a hybrid heritage Discover how colonial influences and Indian spices blended to create one of the most distinctive culinary traditions in the subcontinent A Cultural Kichudi As diverse as Anglo-Indian culture is their food — mixed breeding led to mixed tastes. Hence, both the community and its food are lovingly referred to as a kichudi (kedgeree in old British), which is everyone’s favourite dish. Borrowing cuisine from multiple backgrounds and adding the ‘masala’ gives Anglo-Indian food a separate identity. And because of the varied roots, arguments still continue as to which might be the ‘right' recipe for a dish.  Let’s leave the jury...