: In London, dreams of delicious Kashmiri saag #IndiaNEWS Although saag is referred to colloquially as a poor man’s dish in Kashmir, it is eaten by rich and poor alike in the Valley. Furthermore, the

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In London, dreams of delicious Kashmiri saag #IndiaNEWS
Although saag is referred to colloquially as a poor man’s dish in Kashmir, it is eaten by rich and poor alike in the Valley. Furthermore, the Kashmiri diaspora is fond of growing this vegetable in their kitchen gardens in both Europe and America. In fact, saag is a broad term that refers to a variety of leafy vegetables grown in Kashmir, Punjab and other regions of the Indian subcontinent. However, it is the collard greens known as “saag??? that are most widely grown in Kashmir.People living in Srinagar distinguish the saag grown on city land from its cousin, grown on the marshy land in Dal Lake and deemed to be less tasty. Red spinach is also known as the king of saag and is cooked as a delicacy. When the English actress Joanna Lumley travelled to Bradford for a TV documentary, she met a group of Asian women who informed her that they had grown Kashmiri spinach on a community allotment. She proudly told them that she too is a Kashmiri, having been born in Srinagar in 1946 – a year before the Raj ended.Whenever I visited my grandma’s home during my childhood in Srinagar, I was captivated by a large swathe...Read more

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