Delhi’s food is tied to several happenings from the city’s tumultuous past. In ‘From the King's Table to Street Food’ Pushpesh Pant offers a delightful account of each of these periods, including that of the Sultanate.
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…
The wait for mangoes, a cooling finger millet drink, one hundred coconuts. Abhijit Mohanty documents how summer festivals in Malkangiri, Odisha, preserve foodways of memories.
In this anthology-style feature documenting the fraught relationships between food and labour in India, Mukta Patil gathers perspectives from journalist Priyanka Tupe, union leader Anita Kapoor, and economist Dr. Jean Dr…
Since 1961, India’s camel populations have seen an alarming decline. Shirin Mehrotra explores the nuances of mainstreaming camel milk, shifting views among camel-herding communities, and the challenges that still lie ahe…
Stories of growers, geopolitics, and even fruit flies, Sopan Joshi’s ‘Mangifera Indica’ describes multiple aspects of India’s most beloved fruit.
“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…
We spoke to agricultural workers from The Locavore's community of partner producers to understand how heat intersects with labour, especially for working women, and how they cope with rising temperatures.
By following Syeda’s journey—from trimming the loose threads of jeans to cooking namkeen, and from shelling almonds to making tea strainers—Neha Dixit tries to capture the lived realities of the…
In a three-year-long cookbook project spanning the Coromandel coast, Bhagat Singh A. writes a tribute to his late mother.
How team members at Ishka Farms, India’s first and only caper farm in Tamil Nadu, found themselves experimenting with the ingredient,on the field and back in their home kitchens.