How many stories can a sandwich tell you about Mumbai?
Mumbai, from the very beginning, has been a city of migrants, a mercantile capital drawing people from every region and every background to its packed streets. Those same streets are dense with new beginnings, old longings, and the impudent cross-breeding of cultures and communities that, in holier places, might never have taken place at all. Food has become a subject of frequent, at times farcical, controversy in recent years, with fights breaking out between neighbors in vegetarian buildings, and whole neighborhoods banning the sale of meat products entirely. But Mumbai remains a city enamored of its food, eaten, often as not, out in the streets, where everyone manages (for the most part) to get along.
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