From the King's Table to Street Food: A Food History of Delhi

Pushpesh Pant, one of India’s pre-eminent food writers, is back with a comprehensive food history of the capital.

-  Pushpesh Pant

From The King’s Table to Street Food: A Food History of Delhi A wonderfully evocative book on Delhi and its food combining decades of scholarship with personal experiences and memories by one of our greatest food writers. Shop Now

Each of Delhi’s prominent historical eras is tackled separately—what people ate during the time and why, the economic and societal forces that shape culinary habits and so on.

From the qormas and kebabs of Shajahanabad or the brown sahib’s breakfast of the colonial era, Pant digs into each tidbit from the past with a scholar’s thoroughness and a raconteur’s sense of delight.