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Projects

The Tiny Food Project: Alibag

Thomas Zacharias
November 11, 2025

In Narangi, Alibag, The Locavore and Tiny Miracles are working with Koli and Agri women to turn home-cooked traditions into independent livelihoods. Through this pilot, kitchens become spaces of skill, pride, and entrepreneurship — where good food creates agency, not charity.

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Inside My Kitchen

In Ahmedabad, a Kitchen on Wheels Builds Solidarity

Saachi D'Souza
July 17, 2024

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…

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Producers

Dongaon Local: Ghee From the Kitchens of Dongaon’s Women

The Locavore Team
January 29, 2024

Dongaon Local is named after the village it is set-up in where the village’s farming community closely interact with cows and often make ghee with surplus milk.

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Culture

What Makes a Potluck Tick?

Meera Ganapathi
September 1, 2022

Recalling a potluck in Suratgarh for which she took a dabba of hot thenkuzhal, Meera Ganapathi contemplates the unspoken rules of a potluck, and the essence of what makes one stand out.

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The Locavore Champions

Sri Vamsi Matta’s ‘Come Eat With Me’: Or, To Be Dalit and Eat

Rahee Punyashloka
August 11, 2022

For theatre artist Sri Vamsi Matta, cooking as an act of remembering, as performance, and as a communal experience, are ways of asserting his identity and defying everyday injustices.

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Producers

Tillage – Bringing Back Millets and Forgotten Flours

The Locavore Team
August 1, 2022

We were first drawn to Tillage’s produce after hearing the passion with which siblings Saloni Anchan, a lawyer, and Shival Shah, a chartered accountant, spoke about local and seasonal ingredients.…

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