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Dalit Cook Sunita Devi Is Now India’s Anti-Caste Icon

December 27, 2021 15:50

Sunita Devi, a young woman from the Scheduled Caste community, was hired as a cook at Sukhi Dhang Government Secondary School in Uttarakhand’s Champawat district. She was then sacked by the school, after higher caste students refused to eat the mid-day meal prepared by her. While the school appointed a new cook, a Brahmin, Dalit […]

Food, Farmers, Fun: Zero Waste Eco-Bazaar Is A Hit In Ahmedabad

December 19, 2021 17:41

From savoring produce at the peak of freshness to meeting the people who grow your food, there are countless reasons to support farmers markets. This time, the Women empowerment committee Karnavati club, JITO Ladies wing Ahmedabad and ‘Farm Se’ have brought together the largest zero waste farmers market: Green Eco-bazaar. Here, you could bring waste […]

When My Professor Hat And My Food Hat Collide

December 18, 2021 22:48

I write here about food. My other interest is education. I am a professor when I am not cooking. Wearing my professor hat, I often ponder over what is wrong with our education system, and how we can reinvent the world of education. My cooking hat and my professor hat often collide. I then start […]

Measure Pizza In Centimeters Or Face Penalties: Weights And Measures Department

December 7, 2021 17:14

Most pizza outlets measure pizza in inches, but according to the Weights and Measures Department, it is mandatory to measure pizza in centimeters or face penalties. It is also against the law to display pizza as small, medium or large in size. In accordance with these rules the department fined a pizza outlet in Prahladnagar […]

My Food Is Better Than Yours

November 20, 2021 13:20

Food is politics. Throughout human history, food has been used as a means to signal power and position in society. Food has been caught up in the identity of caste, class, religion, ethnicity, and nationality. Sections of society always use food to differentiate themselves from other sections of society. The rich eat some food, the […]

Fusion Confusion

November 6, 2021 07:15

Food does not flourish in a vacuum. It is an integral part of culture and identity. And when food travels, the context, and the culture around it, needs to travel too. Otherwise, food becomes just an isolated transplant from one place to another, without the stories and rituals that surround it in its country of […]

You Are What You Eat

October 23, 2021 14:04

An aphorism by the 19th Century French gastronome Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin has entered popular culture, ‘Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es’; that is,‘Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are’. In English, we often tone down the exuberance and floweriness of the French language; […]

Kanniyakumari Clove Gets Geographical Indication Tag

October 9, 2021 13:54

Kanniyakumari that has been awarded the Geographical Indication (GI) tag is known for its unique qualities like high concentration of volatile oil content and aroma. Around the 1800s, the East India Company has introduced Clove in India in its spice garden in Courtallam. The densely wooded areas in Kanniyakumari district produce about 73 percent of […]

Indian Thali Is Drama In Every Bite

October 21, 2021 13:07

If you are this far into my series of columns, you know that I savour every bite of my food. I pick apart the colours, textures, tastes, smells, and sounds in every bite, and mindfully immerse myself in the party in my mouth. But the Western style of serving food makes it difficult to enjoy […]

Table for One? Yes, Please.

October 21, 2021 13:12

The words ‘eating alone’ conjure up images of a loner, an anti-social soul, a sad person. Do not judge. Yes, sometimes the solo eater might be all of these, and I know some such sad loners (see, I am judging now). But there is a time for social eating, and there is a time for […]

What’s better than butter? Your Desi Ghee.

September 22, 2021 22:52

Ghee, the Indian invention which has concocted years ago is nothing but butter that has been heated and clarified, had its milk solids and water removed to produce pure butterfat. This process has been a boon to people for years, it gives the butter a long shelf life, a virtue in India where hot temperatures […]

Launch a petition to ban the word ‘foodie’: Ravi Miglani

October 21, 2021 13:07

I hereby launch a petition. Ban the word ‘foodie’. This neologism did not exist until the early 1980s. It first appears in restaurant reviews by Gael Greene, the food critic at New York Magazine. And even after its unfortunate invention, it made only small ripples for a couple of decades, when someone wanted to talk […]

“Fast food is overrated. Slow food wins the race”

October 21, 2021 13:09

Define cooking. You start with some base ingredients – say, vegetables, dal, rice, meat. Into these base ingredients go some additives – say, oil, salt, spices, condiments. The defining transformation happens when heat is applied to the ingredients and the additives. So, cooking is a simple combination of three factors: the base ingredient, the additives, and […]

There is no such thing as authentic food

October 21, 2021 13:11

Some people say food is life. Well, I say, food is more important than life. Food transcends life. With something so important, no wonder people get inordinately passionate, viscerally emotional, and violently possessive about their food. What really is their food? This brings me to the authenticity wars. I know at least two nations who would rather […]

“Cliché to say we eat with our eyes; we eat with our brains”

July 31, 2021 13:50

While we think we just engage the sense of taste when eating, we often engage all five senses. We eat with our brains. This concept has a fancy name: Multisensory Perception of Flavour. What happens on the tastebuds is only a small part of this multisensory experience we call taste. We feed the mind and not […]

Burn the recipe and cook with your heart

October 21, 2021 13:10

People often say, cooking is an art, not a science; cook from the heart, not the head. Having proclaimed that, the said people promptly open a recipe book, or watch a recipe video, and slavishly start following instructions – add one teaspoon of this, 20 grams of that, one cup of the other. Why do […]

Mexican Fried Rice

July 9, 2021 21:18

Serves: 3-4 Persons Ingredients: 2 cups Basmati Rice (soaked in water for an hour, then drained) 1 tbsp Oil 6-7 Garlic cloves (finely chopped) 2-3 Green Onions (finely chopped – Green and White parts separated) 1 cup Red or Black Beans (Rajma- Soaked overnight) 1/3 cup Corn Niblets 1/4 Black Olives (sliced) 1 cup Green & […]

Lasaniya Kheema from the Balasinor kitchen

June 29, 2021 13:54

Princess Aaliya Sultana Babi, Balasinor Lasaniya Kheema is basically a winter dish as the hara lassan is mostly available only during winters. This was generally a breakfast dish to be had with moong k bhune hue khichdi. People now freeze green garlic and so this dish can be made and relished for lunch or dinner, […]