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Inside My Kitchen

In Meghalaya’s Khweng, Dial Muktieh Remembers Foraging at Dusk

Nidaphi Hynniewta

At Mei-Ramew Café in Khweng village, Dial Muktieh’s knowledge of home-cooked meals shines through her indigenous ways of cooking and use of locally available ingredients. Photo by Team Locavore.

7 min

Inside My Kitchen

In Ahmedabad, a Kitchen on Wheels Builds Solidarity

Saachi D’Souza

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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Main Course

Koorka Ularthu

Edible Issues

Koorka Ularthu is a simple tuber stir fry, made commonly by the Syrian Christian community in Kerala.

12 min

Inside My Kitchen

Cooking for Many is an Exercise in Endurance

Riddhi Dastidar

Between March and May this year, Riddhi Dastidar knocks on the doors of Mazdoor Kitchen—a welfare initiative that feeds Delhi’s labourers and homeless—many times. During these visits, they unravel a story of persistent survival in the face of state failure.

7 min

‘Aai loved eating the really small fish’

Oishika Roy

Shraddha Patil’s modaks and puran polis are popular festive fares in Mumbai’s Worli Koliwada. Feasting on kupa biryani, Oishika Roy learns about how Shraddha’s kitchen came to be, her mother’s delicious kanji, and the ways of communal cooking.

6 min

Inside My Kitchen

Can a School Kitchen Also Be a Place of Learning?

Yamini Vijayan

In a school in rural Maharashtra that is rooted in the philosophy of open education, food is seen not just as a way of offering nutrition, but also as a means to building equity and breaking barriers.

4 min

Inside My Kitchen

Inside a Kumaoni Kitchen that Feeds a Family of Ten

Avanti Kumar (text) & Dushyant Vashisht (photos)

In a kitchen that is housed in a structure that’s around 150 years old, Pannuli Devi enjoys cooking in copper and brass utensils that she inherited from her in-laws and received as wedding gifts.

1 min

Inside My Kitchen

Kitchen Hand-Me-Downs: An Evolving Collection

The Locavore Team

A pot, a knife, a dabba—all made far more precious because they come with the memories of people who used them, and the stories that they shared. We invite you to look through treasured kitchen things from across the country.