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Market Archives

This Sunday Market in Alibaug Thrives in the Monsoon

Neil Khopkar

The Thal Sunday Market is indispensable to Neil Khopkar’s family-run eatery in Alibaug. Leaning into local flavours and ingredients, it is here that they buy hirva vanga, samudra methi, and sakla, among a bunch of other produce.

9 min

Inside My Kitchen

In Meghalaya’s Khweng, Dial Muktieh Remembers Foraging at Dusk

Nidaphi Hynniewta

At Mei-Ramew Café in Khweng village, Dial Muktieh’s knowledge of home-cooked meals shines through her indigenous ways of cooking and use of locally available ingredients. Photo by Team Locavore.

7 min

Inside My Kitchen

In Ahmedabad, a Kitchen on Wheels Builds Solidarity

Saachi D’Souza

Through an open-to-all mobile kitchen in Ahmedabad, artist Vipin Dhanurdharan imagines the community kitchen afresh. This performance piece feeds, but more so, it builds solidarities. Between the years 2012 and…

10 min

Market Archives

Work Begins at 3 am in Kasimedu’s Fish Market

Throvnica Chandrasekar

At the Kasimedu fish market in Chennai, fisherfolk are seeing a decline in their catch. Throvnica Chandrasekar captures the sights and smells of the market, and examines the reasons for the dwindling fish along the coast.

8 min

Market Archives

‘The Matunga market introduced me to my Mangalorean roots’

Ashwini Pai

It is in the Matunga market in Mumbai that chef Ashwini Pai learnt how to identify a fresh and tender jeev kadgi. She writes on the seasonal produce essential to Mangalorean cooking, and how the market connects her to the town her grandparents left behind.

7 min

Mrs K.M. Mathew gained popularity after her column on Mutton Bafath

Thangam Mammen

Generations of Malayalis have grown up with Mrs K.M.Mathew’s treasured cookbooks. Read the foreword of her latest book, Mrs K.M. Mathew’s Finest, by her daughter Thangam Mammen. In a short interview with her, we discover more about her mother’s measured approach to cooking and living.

8 min

An Excerpt From The 1Shanthiroad Cookbook

Suresh Jayaram

Like most other things at 1Shanthiroad—an arts space in Bangalore—the kitchen is open to all. Suresh Jayaram remembers bright flavours from his childhood, and talks about how his family’s affinity towards feeding influences how he runs the studio.

12 min

Inside My Kitchen

Cooking for Many is an Exercise in Endurance

Riddhi Dastidar

Between March and May this year, Riddhi Dastidar knocks on the doors of Mazdoor Kitchen—a welfare initiative that feeds Delhi’s labourers and homeless—many times. During these visits, they unravel a story of persistent survival in the face of state failure.

7 min

‘Aai loved eating the really small fish’

Oishika Roy

Shraddha Patil’s modaks and puran polis are popular festive fares in Mumbai’s Worli Koliwada. Feasting on kupa biryani, Oishika Roy learns about how Shraddha’s kitchen came to be, her mother’s delicious kanji, and the ways of communal cooking.

13 min

Market Archives

Beyond Transactions: People Hold This Market Together

Pankhuri Agrawal, Amiya Chaudhuri, Sreepathy Paliath, Shreshtha Chhabra, Chetana Divya

A morning spent at Bengaluru’s Russell Market reminds us of the forgotten art of engaging with familiar strangers, and taking pleasure in hand-picking fruits and vegetables for our everyday needs. Meet its people, and the produce they bring to the table.

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