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Culture

Rum-and-Plum Cakes & Bread for Shahi Tukda: Bengal Bakery is Loved by All of Lucknow

Sonakshi Srivastava

As Christmas arrives, Abdul sahab’s rum-and-plum cakes are sought after by all of Lucknow. Now the third-generation owner of Bengal Bakery, his traditional baking and tahzīb perfectly embody the city’s…

10 min

Culture

What Makes Joida a Hotspot for Tuber Diversity?

Mukta Patil

Sumeet Kaur, founder of Spudnik Farms and tuber enthusiast, talks to Mukta Patil about these resilient root vegetables, how the Kunbi community preserve and worship them, and making mudali bharta at home.

14 min

Culture

How ‘Local’ is the Mid Day Meal?

Zoya Naaz Rehman

Zoya Naaz Rehmaan explores whether the Mid Day Meals in different states consider the everyday dietary habits of the students they cater to.

10 min

Culture

Discovering Gular, the Lesser-Known Fig, and Other Lessons About Lost Foods

Priti Saxena

The gular fruit does not exist. Or at least, that’s what the stories say. Historian Priti Saxena, a brief resident of Bihar, discovered gular close to her home in Patna. Intrigued by the mythical narratives around this food, she began tracing its social life over time.

11 min

Culture

Bittersweet: Five Voices on Food and Queerness

Oishika Roy

What does food have to do with queerness? Oishika Roy gathers perspectives on eating, desire, chosen families, and the delicate intersection of food and love.

17 min

Recipes of Revolt and Resistance: Artist Rajyashri Goody Challenges Deep-Rooted Casteism

Khorshed Deboo

Through her practice, artist Rajyashri Goody probes the perversions of caste in India, and how food forms a locus where the interplay of power and powerlessness is unfortunately most evident.

9 min

Culture

Following Judima in Dima Hasao: A Rice Wine Story

Dejna Daulagupu and Dolly Kikon

Judima is a rice wine predominantly brewed by Dimasa women in Assam. Based in Tereh Village, Khimkho Hojai—a self-reliant farmer—brews it for her household, with help from her husband.

6 min

Culture

Watching The Great Indian Kitchen with 300 College Students

Vinay Kumar

Why are so many women in India still saddled with kitchen chores? Vinay Kumar, who teaches a critical reading and writing course in Bengaluru, writes about the experience of watching 'The Great Indian Kitchen' with his class.

8 min

Culture

‘To us, an activist approach is a people-centric approach’

The Locavore Team

A team of artists, writers, and researchers collaborate to create a graphic series that demystifies the laws and policies around food, and the food systems that we are part of.

7 min

Culture

Dried Fish: Going Beyond Smell

Shruti Tharayil

While India has a rich and diverse culture around cooking dried fish, it hasn’t been celebrated owing to its fraught histories, matters of identity, and smells. Shruti Tharayil writes on challenging old hierarchies of smells, and her own journey of unlearning.

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