TCP: The Curry Project

Taj Mahal: Damascus, Syria

Speaking of a connection between India and Syria brings to the minds of many the distant past, when caravans traveling the Silk Road connected the two. For the culinary world, Taj Majal continues to do just that. To much of the Western world, Syria exists enigmatically, an abstract and psychologically inaccessible country. Damascus, its capital [...]

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Ashoka: Dushanbe, Tajikistan

The immigration line into Tajikistan, if you can call it a line, is seemingly endless. Slow and purgatory-like. A frustrating and dense funneling of people and bags and passports. Three steps forward. One back. People are pushing. One policeman, husky and prominently mustached, pushes back. Tajik murmurs ebb and swell with the wave of pushing, [...]

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Chingari: Doha, Qatar

Thai and Filipino servers, red bindi dots on their foreheads, walk briskly past one another, fulfilling orders, tending the restaurant with a keen and watchful eye. At a table in the corner, British expatriate tweens throw back Kingfisher Beer like there’s no tomorrow. It’s quite a spectacle for a city with only one licensed alcohol [...]

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