THE BIRYANI PROJECT
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A living archive, not a recipe box

Share your
biryani
story

Whose biryani do you argue about?

Biryani doesn't belong to one country, one family, or one right way of making it. It travels — through migration, memory, identity and Friday kitchens. This is a place to share that story: who made it, where you were, what it meant. No recipes. No debates on authenticity. Just your stories.

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Where the stories come from

A live biryani map

Your stories get mapped as they come in. Click a region to filter.

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Everyone gets a seat here.

The CEO and the driver. The diaspora and the people who never left. The person who makes biryani every Friday and the one who only knows it from a street cart in a city they visited once. No story is more valid than another. No expertise required. Pull up a chair.

Leave your biryani story

Text is enough. A photo or a video link makes it richer. When you're done, we'll hand you back a keepsake of your own story to keep or share.

Your story will be reviewed before it appears publicly on this page.
Keep talking

The Community Wall

Read a story that feels like yours? Don't just read it and move on. This is where the conversation happens now — react to a story, share a thought, post a video. Every post is reviewed before it goes live, same as stories.

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In real life

The Biryani Supper Club

Once a month, I cook, you bring the stories. Fifteen people at a time, my place in Fort Greene, Brooklyn — my heart is huge but my apartment is not.

Next dinner

Tuesday, September 2, 2026

Fort Greene, Brooklyn — details and RSVP on Luma.

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Past dinners
Your host

I'm Zehra.

Zehra serving biryani from a large pot at a gathering

Not a chef. Not a food critic. Just someone who has spent twenty-five years making biryani, thinking about biryani, and gathering people around it — and slowly realising the dish was never really the point.

The Biryani Project is three things: a living archive of your stories, right here on this site. A supper club — once a month, my place in Fort Greene, fifteen people at a time. And biryani conversations — short filmed chats about your biryani, and really, your life. Invite me to yours: hellobiryaniproject@gmail.com — doesn't have to be New York.

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