The Cost of Food: How The Climate Crisis Impacts Farming Labour
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Chef on the Road | Jharkhand 2.0: Exploring Mahua Harvesting, Forest Foods, and Community Kitchens with Wild Harvest
The second iteration of our Chef on the Road (COTR) trip to Jharkhand brought together six travellers to harvest fresh mahua, explore forests in the Jonha region, and learn how Jharkhand’s communities are preserving thei…
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Wild Food Festival 2026: From Wild Foods to Better Futures
This monsoon, join us in Mumbai for the eighth edition of the annual Wild Food Festival—a one-of-a-kind gathering featuring wild foods, native seeds, guided tastings, thought-provoking conversations, and a community-led…
Spotlighting Regional Cheese and Dairy Traditions: Masque x Chef Aditya Raghavan x The Locavore
A one-of-a-kind culinary experience highlighting the many cheese and dairy traditions native to the Indian subcontinent.
Mumbai Koli Project Exhibition: Where the City Meets the Sea
Photographs, stories, recipes, and fragments of lived experience gathered through the Mumbai Koli Project were brought to life through an exhibition held in Mumbai.
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…
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Chef on the Road: Two Brothers Organic Farms | What is ‘Organic’, Anyway?
From dining at a 100-year-old family wada to walking through sugarcane fields—this edition of Chef on The Road explored what ‘organic’ actually entails at an ancestral farm in Maharashtra’s Bhodani village.
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.
The Impact of Overfishing on India’s Marine Ecosystem
Highlighting the impact of overfishing and the climate crisis on India’s marine ecosystem and fishing communities, the session discussed the role grassroots leaders, scientists, policy makers, and researchers play in bet…
Reading Between the Words: Demystifying Food Labels, Claims, and Jargon
LFC x TL Partner Producer Session
Reading Between the Words: Demystifying Food Labels, Claims, and Jargon
“Organic.” “Natural.” “Chemical-free.” “Sustainable.” We see these words everywhere—on food packets, menus, and Instagram captions. While they are meant to signal trust, care, and ethics, what do they actually mean? And…