• A to Z Of Sindhi Food

    When I started working on my project about documenting ancient, traditional as well as lost recipes from Sindhi cuisine, a few years ago, the biggest challenge I faced was the lack of accessible information  about the same. The limited documents that I could access, were in Sindhi, a script that I never could learn, despite of trying umpteen number of times, since my childhood. I felt stuck up. So the only way to move forward was to learn the Sindhi script and to make sure that I don’t give up this time, I took up a challenge; The AlifBe of…

  • Arq For AlifBe of Sindhi Food~31

    Ideally we should be talking about   ظ ( ज़/Z) as the 31st Consonant in AlifBe series but I couldn’t think of any Sindhi dish starting with this particular ‘Z’. For the uninitiated, there are 4 variants of ‘Z’ in Sindhi script; ذ as in Zaro (Little ), (ज़/Z) or as in Kagzi lemon Pickle ز as in Zanzeer (Chain/shackles) (ज़/Z) or as in Zaefrani Kulfi ض as in Zaeef (Feeble) (ज़/Z) or as in Zaroori Masalha and ظ as in Zalim (cruel/merciless) (ज़/Z). Kindly note that all the above mentioned consonants are represented by ‘ ज़ ‘in Devanagari and by…