You Can Now Eat Spicy, Funky, Kashmiri Soul Food at One of Portland’s Best Breweries
Kashmiri food is all about the devil’s dirt. Asafetida, which has acquired all sorts of hilarious nicknames going back to Alexander the Great, is a bulbous fennel known for its strong and funky odor. But when you cook its resin, the spice smooths into deep umami, an almost leeklike smoothness.