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Why Subscribe to Beyond Babylon?
Because history is best served with spices.
Because food isn’t just about sustenance—it’s about memory, migration, and the stories we tell around the table.
Because somewhere between Baghdad and Bombay, Aleppo and Shanghai, Calcutta and Singapore, Jewish food took unexpected turns, absorbed flavors, and created something entirely its own—only for many of these traditions to be forgotten.
And because, if we’re being honest, you don’t really need another challah recipe.
Beyond Babylon is where Jewish culinary history meets deep storytelling, cultural memory, and the unapologetic joy of eating.
What’s Inside?
🥘 Recipes with a story – from Awafi comfort food to Burmese-Jewish curries
📖 Lost culinary traditions – the flavors of forgotten Jewish migrations
🔥 Sharp, thoughtful takes – because history is messy, and so is food
🤔 Conversations that challenge – food as identity, food as power, food as survival
Who’s This For?
If you’ve ever argued about whether your grandmother’s way of making something is the real way
If you love a good footnote as much as a good spice blend
If you think cookbooks should come with history lessons
If you believe food tells us who we are, where we’ve been, and where we’re going
Come for the recipes, stay for the stories. And if you don’t like it? At least you’ll leave with a great way to cook crispy ALoo makalla jumping potatoes.
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