THE ANECDOTE OF GHUMMI KABABI..🤍✨ The culinary art has been most important art in the Mughal times. Shah Jahan liked to enjoy long courses of food and spent hours on darstarkhwan. The emperor would set out the portion of food for poor before eating. However after 1857 when Delhi fell to its most miserable condition every section of society from Royal to ordinary’s were tremendously hurt. The lost grandeur also meant complete collapse of economy & loss of patronage. After the exile of Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar , many of the chefs in the royal kitchen found themselves without patrons and set up roadside stalls in the walled city in order to survive. They sold delicious good on the roadside and on the steps of Jama Masjid. Of these cooks was Ghummi Kababi, described by Ashraf Subuhi Dehlvi in his book, Dikli ki chand Ajeeb Hastiyan. As long as Ghummi was alive no better Kabab were ever sold. Ghummi himself was a an entertaining man who single handedly tried to preserve Mughal legat. He had great skills to converse and narrate the memories of the beautiful past of Mughal grandeus of which he was a significant part. Ghummi would often mutter ‘ Aji woh din lad gaye jab khalil khan fakhta udaya kartey they’ The glory days have gone when all the lovers of spicy conversation and kababs would stand there the whole night. #mughalarchitecture #food #olddelhi #history #architecture #medieval #kabab #ghummikababs #history #culinary #culinaryarts #art #shahjahanabad #shahjahan #foodie #jamamasjid #mosque #stairs #instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CqJ0utbPZ_O/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=