What Does it Mean to Blend Traditional Food Wisdom with Cutting Edge Technology?
Shivani Unakar visits a university kitchen in Bengaluru to understand the complexities of what it means to blend traditional food wisdom with cutting-edge technology.
From Our Community
These stories have been sourced from a growing network of passionate Locavores from across India. Join us as we gather diverse stories, wade through local markets and farms, experiment with flavours, have conversations with experts from across fields, and get our hands dirty.
“The idea is to not waste a single leaf that comes”
Gayatri Desai, chef and founder at Pune’s experimental kitchen and fermentary Ground Up, talks about the unique flavour of ferns and lemons, using every last part of bamboo, and why fermentation is intrinsic to the way s…
“The guts, blood, all the bits that are thrown out; there’s filth in this work, but it’s also a part of (our) life”
—Ashik, a fish-seller in Saki Naka, Mumbai
One Must Listen to the Sound of Sun-Dried Chillies
How to eat more attentively in an increasingly warming world.
Kavita Devi
In her two-room home in Shahbad Dairy, an informal settlement in North-West Delhi, Kavita Devi tells me: 7 years into her marriage, at 20, she migrated to Delhi from Bihar’s…
Naveen Yadav
“Comrade! Zindabad! How are you?” Naveen Bhai’s voice booms. Naveen Yadav, 42, is a street vendor, activist, and member of Janwaadi Hawker’s Sabha (JHS) and CITU. His broad smile belies…
This Sunday Market in Alibag Thrives in the Monsoon
The Thal Sunday Market is indispensable to Neil Khopkar’s family-run eatery in Alibag. Leaning into local flavours and ingredients, it is here that they buy hirva vanga, samudra methi, and sakla, among a bunch of other p…
In Meghalaya’s Khweng, Dial Muktieh Remembers Foraging at Dusk
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.
In Ahmedabad, a Kitchen on Wheels Builds Solidarity
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…