Photos by Host Pritika M., and Content Volunteers Shalini, and Vincy Victor.
HOST
CO-HOST
CONTENT VOLUNTEER
WHERE WE MET
I really could not choose my favourite dish—everything was so delicious and diverse!
Deeptha
At one point during the meetup, I looked around and began to wonder ‘What can food do, more than just satiate my hunger?’ I am still thinking about that question.
Aruna
The ease with which everyone conversed was something that surprised and stayed with me.
Varsha
A lovely illustration of what the Local Food Club feels like.
The enthusiasm with which Co-host Hanish conducted The Locavore Shuffle.
The filling up of plates with all the potluck goodies brought to the meetup.
MEET YOUR HOST
What does local mean to you?
My grandmother slicing and cutting summer fruit like mangoes and jackfruit from the vendor selling her favourite varieties. Being fed and nourished without the deceitful distancing of a GST staring back at me. Tea from the blue bunk shop at the bus stop. Boiled peanuts, embraced in newsprint and gossip. The glass mug, filled to the brim with mosambi juice and too much ice in juice shops named Juice Shop.
A red hot-pack filled to the brim with chicken biryani and a giant glass bottle of Pepsi at my grandmother’s house for Sunday lunch, followed by ice cream in white melamine bowls with fading brown borders, and the inevitable 2 pm nap.
Biting into crab shells with teeth that have been seeing a dentist since grade 7. The meat—worth all the subsequent appointments!
Sweet corn chicken soup and an overdue library book.
There’s so much we have as a city to share and learn from each other. I see the LFC as a space of belonging, a space for everyone to ask questions, to do better with the convictions we hold surrounding sustainability and community. It is a counter-narrative seed which brings focus and agency back to people to make informed, community-led choices in the face(lessness) of fascist, capitalist systems.