Maharashtra - The Locavore

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Main Course

Daggertooth Pike Conger Curry

InSeason Fish

This recipe for a Maharashtrian curry from sustainable seafood initiative ‘InSeason Fish’ highlights the unique texture and delicate flavours of the daggertooth pike conger—or the pike eel—abundantly available in December along both coasts of India.

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Anarse

Suhasini Ekbote

Diwali is synonymous with snacks and sweets, called faral. Suhasini Ekbote, defying modern trends, continues to make Anarse – a fried, semi-sweet snack made with fermented rice flour and jaggery, preserving a traditional cooking technique.

11 min

The Locavore Champions

“The act of foraging is meant to be a collective process”

Oishika Roy

Farmer and seed-saver Sunil Bhoye tells Oishika Roy about how seeds can be preserved by storing them in earthen pots and bamboo stems, and passing his knowledge of wild foods on to his daughter through the Wild Food Festival.

9 min

Market Archives

This Sunday Market in Alibaug Thrives in the Monsoon

Neil Khopkar

The Thal Sunday Market is indispensable to Neil Khopkar’s family-run eatery in Alibaug. Leaning into local flavours and ingredients, it is here that they buy hirva vanga, samudra methi, and sakla, among a bunch of other produce.

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Main Course

Kala Masalyachi Methi

Archish Kashikar

Reminiscing about his hometown Nashik, Archish Kashikar shares one of his favourite recipes featuring kala masala—a highlight in the northern parts of Maharashtra.

6 min

From the Fields

“We would fill our stomachs with Udad and Khurasani leaves”

Wild Food Project Team

Sunil Bhoye, a farmer and conservationist from Maharashtra, talks to Shailesh Awate of OOO Farms about the demands of foraging, and how traditional knowledge is passed down in the Kokni tribe that he belongs to.

September 1, 2024

Wild Food Festival ’24

September 1, 2024

City-dwellers come together in Mumbai to taste wild foods from the forests of the Sahyadri mountains, and learn more about the communities that champion them.

14 min

Culture

How ‘Local’ is the Mid Day Meal?

Zoya Naaz Rehman

Zoya Naaz Rehmaan explores whether the Mid Day Meals in different states consider the everyday dietary habits of the students they cater to.

5 min

Producers

Balion Agrofoods: Tapping Into the Versatile Coconut Sap

The Locavore Team

Balion Agrofoods—a brand that offers products made from coconut sap—is based in the Sindhudurg district, a Konkan region abundant in coconut palms.

8 min

Market Archives

‘The Matunga market introduced me to my Mangalorean roots’

Ashwini Pai

It is in the Matunga market in Mumbai that chef Ashwini Pai learnt how to identify a fresh and tender jeev kadgi. She writes on the seasonal produce essential to Mangalorean cooking, and how the market connects her to the town her grandparents left behind.

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