Elli Benaiah spent thirty years as a criminal lawyer in Canada and Israel before studying cooking and going on to manage kosher community restaurants in Switzerland and Germany.
Now retired, he explores Jewish foodways across the Indian Ocean, drawing on his family’s roots in Cochin and Calcutta.
He writes Beyond Babylon on Substack and is working on a book about these Jewish communities in Asia and their food.
The Quiet Erasure of Jewish Artists in America
