Elevate your Millet Cooking Workshop with Native Bombay
Nachni shammi on jackfruit leaf, a sweet kutki phirni, and so much more. Peek inside our first-ever in-person millet cooking workshop with head chef Bhairav Singh.
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Millets
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The Locavore Meetup, Mumbai: Millet Edition
Hearing from experts, tasting six homegrown beers, and a surprise delivery of millet pizzas at this first-of-its-kind meetup.
Celebration of Millets with NESFAS, Shillong
Chefs and growers discussed the complexities of growing krai in Meghalaya, paired with a curated millet menu.
Foxtail Jadoh With Tungtap and Salad
Inspired by her elder brother's adventurous tales of travelling and trekking, Sayani, Chef volunteer from the Millet Cooking Lab, shares the recipe of this traditional breakfast delicacy from Meghalaya.
Songs of Survival: The Cultural Memory that Kept Millets Alive
Certain food memories linger in a community’s collective consciousness long after the food itself may have disappeared from people’s plates and farmers’ fields. Sohel Sarkar writes on the farming songs and rituals that have sustained millets in different parts of India.
Mixed Millet Rotla
Sorghum, pearl millet, and finger millet flours are combined to make this wholesome dish, with recipes for cucumber-tomato sabji, and chilli pickle that pair perfectly with it.
Ragi Laddoo
This recipe has been documented for The Locavore by Shabnam Afrien of Odisha Millets Mission (OMM). A flagship programme of the government of Odisha, OMM was launched in 2017 to improve the nutrition of tribal communities in Odisha through revival of millets in farming and their diets.
‘Odisha Millets Mission is a People’s Programme’
What makes Odisha Millets Mission (OMM) stand out in a sea of other government programmes? The Locavore learns about how women Self-Help Groups are championing millets, and the inclusion of ragi ladoos in Anganwadi meals.
The Return of the Forgotten Millet
With the United Nations declaring 2023 as the International Year of Millets (IYOM), and the growing attempts to revive this ancient Indian grain, do you ever wonder where it disappeared to in the first place? Arathi Menon helps us understand why millets vanished from our diets, and the value of bringing it back.
Millet Revival Project
The Millet Revival Project, in collaboration with the Rainmatter Foundation, aims to reinvigorate our relationship with millets through research, events, community engagement, recipes, and impactful storytelling.
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