
How Tandoori Chicken Took Over South Asian Thanksgiving Tables
On a flight in June 1962 from Bombay to Rome, then-First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy ate an in-flight meal of “chicken tandoori.” The following year, the Los Angeles Times published a recipe for the spiced, brick-red poultry dish, patterned with stripes of char resembling a zebra’s. The piece included ruminations like “not all Indian food is curry,” followed by “it is surprisingly good.”
The recipe’s instructions were par for the course: washing and skinning fryer chickens, then creating small inci
The recipe’s instructions were par for the course: washing and skinning fryer chickens, then creating small inci