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Dr. Kurush F. Dalal has a BA from the University of Mumbai, an MA in Archaeology as well as a PhD on the Early Iron Age in Rajasthan, both from Deccan College, Pune University. Subsequently he shifted focus to the Early Medieval Period predominantly on the West Coast of India and excavated the sites of Sanjan, Chandore and Mandad. Dr. Dalal also actively works on Memorial Stones and Ass-curse Stones in India and dabbles in Numismatics, Defence Archaeology, Architecture, Ethnoarchaeology and allied disciplines. He has published over 35 papers and has read many more at National and International Seminars. He runs a small catering business inherited from his mother the late Dr Katy F Dalal. He has blended his passion for food and archaeology into a research in Culinary Anthropology and Food Archaeology.
The Parsi community has the most well-defined breakfast in India, argues Kurush Dalal, and he tells us about its many influences “Breakfast is the most important meal of the day”, I probably heard my mother say this more often than anything else. She was an extremely pro-breakfast person, and her idea of a breakfast ranged […]
A lot of the quick and convenient ways in which we buy and consume food today – supermarkets, QSRs, catering and deliveries – were set into motion over 30 years ago by a certain decisive Mr. Singh. Kurush Dalal explains the fast food movement in the 90s. On the 24th of July 1991, India’s then […]
Humans have the most diverse diet of any species on the planet – if anything can be made edible, we’ll eat it. Archeologist Kurush Dalal tells us how we got this way. Crunchy on the outside, gooey on the inside, with the grainy texture of finely ground blanched almonds and the flavour of a low […]