Curry Someone’s Favor with a Bowl of Savory Spice

A bowl of comfort
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It is said that humans trekked from the cradle of Africa to the Indian subcontinent some 55,000 years ago — well before we fiddled with agriculture. That long excursion of time produced a vast array of peoples and genetic diversity, second only to Africa.

Once they settled near the Indus River basin, about 9000 years ago, they took up farming, and this diversity translated to…