An excellent food and cuisine article as only the GOYA journal can write it.
We learn that the first Muslims settled in India as a result of coastal trade and not of conquest which only followed later. That the first Muslims in India were from Basra Iraq who came to trade and later settled in droves on the Konkan coast along its entire stretch - from the southern reaches of Kerala through Karnataka, Maharashtra and Goa, bringing their Arab cuisine and mixing it up with coconuts, spices and other local ingredients. The Konkani Muslims who settled in Bombay operate small and non-descript restaurants that may be paragons of plainness but undeniably are towers of taste. One must savour their meats, seafood curries and uniquely Konkan Biryanis that give immense pleasure-sensation to any palate. https://www.goya.in/blog/inside-the-lesser-known-cuisine-of-indias-konkani-muslims Roland. Toronto.
