Thursday, November 6, 2025

Food as family history

Take twenty minutes to watch this fascinating YouTube video from NYT Cooking featuring Priya Krishna and her quest to recreate her family's secret spice recipe. She works with two different versions of the recipe, one dictated by her grandfather, and another dictated by her grandmother, both without clear instructions for how to recreate the spice blend. The process takes months, including extended time sending samples of the spice blend to her family members all over the world.

Emotional and really well done, and another example of how YouTube as a platform is so good for this type of short form content.

Update - There's an article to accompany the video if you have a subscription to the New York Times.

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