EditorialClockwise from top left: aloo palak (spicy spinach and potatoes); chicken kofta in tomato gravy; Kerala-style vegetable korma; mango lassi; and basmati rice in New York, March 28, 2023. Food styled by Simon Andrews. (Christopher Testani/The New York Times)
EditorialSpicy tsukemen is served with a small dish of crunchy chile sauce at Okiboru House of Tsukemen in New York, Feb. 25, 2023. (Lanna Apisukh/The New York Times)
Editorialthe biyebarir fish fry at Masalawala & Sons, which is modeled after the fish that appears in great quantities at wedding dinners in Kolkata, in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, Jan. 15, 2023. (Adam Friedlander/The New York Times)