 "Hyderabadi Mutton Biryani at The Biryani Project")
Among the many stories that capture its historical magnificence, there is one that is centred around how royal households were afraid of serving biryani to visiting representatives of other principalities. The royal host feared that the touring party would like the dish, and he, out of gentlemanly magnanimity, wouldn’t be able to say no if the impressed visitors asked for the treasured family recipe.
For hundreds of years, that is how biryani was: an exclusive, delicacy whose formula was almost always a closely guarded secret.
And when the kingdoms were stormed and all royalty ceased to exist, it was sold in a
