“I’m making a dish called muttachar. My grandmother, who founded the family fortunes on her back by marrying three husbands — all of whom died happy and left her all their money — married, as her second husband, a man with the splendid name of Ezechial Manasseh: a very illustrious Sephardic Jewish family from Calcutta. And when he went east, his mother sent with him a cook called Fuzdah, a black Jew from Cochin. Fuzdah was famous in my family mythology for his breakfast eggs. It took me until almost now to find that it was actually called muttachar, not Fuzdah’s Eggs.”
— Clarissa Dickson-Wright, Two Fat Ladies “Food in the Wild”, 1996