Food & Cuisine
Kashmiri Wazwan: The Feast That Defines a Culture
The word wazwan is a compound of two Persian-derived terms: waza, meaning cook, and wan, meaning shop or establishment.
Fashion and food writer
Zara writes about food, fashion and the material culture of the Kashmir Valley. She approaches every subject from the perspective of craft: how things are made, who makes them, and what they mean.
Food & Cuisine
The word wazwan is a compound of two Persian-derived terms: waza, meaning cook, and wan, meaning shop or establishment.
Fashion
Pashmina is a type of fine wool fibre, not a fabric, not a weaving style, and not a category of shawl.
Fashion
Kashmir is not a single climate. It is four climates stacked across twelve months, each one demanding something different from...
Food & Cuisine
Kashmiri cooking operates on principles that are distinct from both the Punjabi-influenced cuisine most people associate with...
Culture
Kashmir has produced embroidery of significant sophistication for at least five hundred years.
Food & Cuisine
South Asian street food is not a single cuisine. It is several hundred distinct regional food cultures that share a geography...