The Flavour India Forgot: Why Smoked Meat From The Northeast Deserves The Spotlight
Walk through a village in Nagaland or Assam during winter, and you notice something immediately: the air tastes smoky. Not aggressively so. Gently, persistently, everywhere. That smoke comes from fires burning in homes and community spaces, slowly smoking meat hung above hearths. The practice has continued for centuries, possibly millennia. Smoke meat is the undisputed…