Reading Circle August 2026
LFC explores local ingredients, questions of regionality, authenticity, and recognition of an ingredient.
Events
The Future of Seed-Keeping in Meghalaya
Highlighting the key role of women farmers in seed conservation in the face of the climate crisis, this Beyond the Plate session discussed how local communities are coming together in Meghalaya to preserve traditional kn…
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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.
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…
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…
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.
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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…
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.