Know Your Desi Ingredients Quiz Night
A KYDI-centred quiz where community members explored ingredients that shape everyday eating—from seasonal fruits and vegetables to pantry staples, fish, meat, and a lot more.
LFC Events
Reading Circle August 2026
LFC explores local ingredients, questions of regionality, authenticity, and recognition of an ingredient.
Reading Circle May 2026
To better understand India's gig economy's ground realities, the LFC community read and discussed an article on a Delhi-based gig worker, and unionising for basic labour rights.
The Cost of Food: How The Climate Crisis Impacts Farming Labour
What are the everyday realities behind headlines about climate-induced floods and droughts? What does the climate crisis actually mean for the people growing our food? The Locavore’s latest Beyond the Plate session featu…
Stable Income, Drinking Water, Rest: Why Gig Workers Unionise
Delivery workers across multiple quick-commerce platforms assert that urban regions can no longer do without doorstep delivery. In such a context, why does gig work remain undignified? We’re bringing together three speak…
Finding Northeast India in Bengaluru: A Food Walk and Dinner in Kalyan Nagar
Sociologist Prithiraj Borah’s guided walk in Kalyan Nagar involved sampling an array of indigenous Northeastern dishes in the neighbourhood, understanding their local contexts, and how such food can often run the risk of…
Beyond Basmati: Making Native Rices Part of Your Everyday Kitchen
Once home to nearly 1,00,000 indigenous varieties of rice, just a fraction dominate markets in India today. This online discussion explored the reasons behind their decline, unpacking how the pricing of commercial variet…
Unpacking ‘The Great Indian Kitchen’: What Cinema Reveals about Gender, Domesticity, and Labour
A Malayalam-language film revolving around a newly married woman’s struggles in a conservative, patriarchal household nudges us to think about the harsh realities that gender and labour spawn within domestic spaces.
Bazaar Walk and Brunch with Chef Sohini Banerjee
Join British Bengali chef and writer Sohini Banerjee for an intimate morning walk through Jadubabur Bazaar, one of South Kolkata’s most storied neighbourhood markets.