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Nummy Naan
Khusrau baji prem ki khelun pi ke sangJeet gayi to piya more hari pee ke sang. (I’m playing a game with my beloved; if I win he will become mine, if I lose, I will become his.) – Amir Khusro. Bubbly, fresh, fluffy naan – that beautiful Indian flatbread not just popular in South Asia but all over the world. Derived from an old Persian word meaning ‘bread,’ naan’s first recorded history dates to 1300 C.E. Thanks to Indo-Persian poet and musician Amir Khusro, we know that naan-e-tunuk (light bread) and naan-e-tanuri (cooked in a tandoor oven) were cooked at the Imperial Court in Delhi. By the early 1500s, naan was…