Clay Pot

Clay Pot is an independent journal on food and culture from around the world.

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Jan 22, 2019

A Bitter Cup Of Tea

The untold story of the tea tribes of Assam, who nurture and bring tea to the world, while struggling to make ends meet

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Jan 7, 2019

A legacy of loss

A Syrian Christian bemoans the gradual extinction of certain culinary traditions of her community

Clay Pot in Clay Pot

Jan 7, 2019

The Transmission of Tradition

How a young Jewish woman found her faith, not in the holy book or at the synagogue, but in the kitchen…

Monty Majeed in Clay Pot

Jan 4, 2019

Editor’s Note: Memory

The aroma of slowly simmering fish curry, cooked in a mann chatti (clay pot) and tempered with red chillies, curry…

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Nov 18, 2018

A Eulogy For Eateries

What it means to have the food we grew up eating and loved be wiped out of our culture only to be replaced by newer…

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Nov 18, 2018

What’s in your fridge?

Why the household refrigerator is an intimate, yet revealing catalogue of human nature

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Nov 18, 2018

Things I Have Eaten Off the Ground

Reminiscences of a serial forager or why you need to stop to look at the world around your feet

Lost in translation

It took a village to make those homemade treats my grandmother made for us daily. My journey to discover this, through her…

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Nov 18, 2018

Edie K’s many food atrocities

It’s better to leave the classics alone. Or not. A chance invention that turned a traditional dish on its…

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Nov 18, 2018

The cost of creating a memory

A die-hard foodie explains why she would rather splurge on adventurous culinary experiments than on other…

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