An archive exploring people’s oral food memories through recipes and stories.
At The Locavore, we’re trying to catalog people’s oral food memories and recipes through conversations that invoke a familiar sense of home. Through the course of our lives, we take great comfort in our families’ and communities’ treasured recipes, which make us feel connected to home through the food we eat. If you would like to contribute a recipe, write to content@thelocavore.in with ‘LONGING FOR HOME’ in the subject line. Include a short description about the recipe, who’ll be participating in the conversation alongside you, and the stories that make it special.
This archive was originally created as a part of the ‘Longing for Home Food’ Project, which was an offshoot of the curation at the eighth edition of the Serendipity Arts Festival 2023.
Inside the booth, attendees were able to listen to a diverse set of voices share their intimate relationship with food and family, and watch some of their stories come to life through Hariom Verma’s animations. Inspired by its success, over the last few months, members of The Locavore team have been sourcing stories and recipes from across India to build a collated audio repository.
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