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High in the mountains of north Pakistan is the ancient state of Baltistan, sharing its border with China and India's Kashmir, and once on the Spice Route to China.
Little may have been known about Balti food outside its indigenous area, had it not been for a small group of Pakistani Kashmiris, who settled in East Birmingham in the 1960s.
There, they opened small cafes in the back streets, serving curries made aromatic with Kashmiri Garam Masala, and herbs, with plentiful coriander, in two-handed pots called the 'Karahi' in Pakistan, but known here as the 'Balti pan'.
Eating with no cutlery, using fingers and bread to scoop up the food, is the norm to the community, but a revalation to Birmingham's white population, who made the Balti their own.
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