Moving across continents makes everyday practices such as cooking and feeding much more self-conscious, Krishnendu Ray tells us. A renowned food studies scholar, Ray talks to us about his changed perception of cooking, parenting, and his Didu’s jaggery-sweetened moorki.
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.
Moving across continents makes everyday practices such as cooking and feeding much more self-conscious, Krishnendu Ray tells us. A renowned food studies scholar, Ray talks to us about his changed perception of cooking, parenting, and his Didu’s jaggery-sweetened moorki.
Stepping outside the framework of food as celebration alone, Dr. Dolly Kikon looks at culinary cultures through the lens of struggle, community, and hope. Tansha Vohra speaks to the anthropologist about fermentation, resilience, and the projects that demand her attention.
For the sixth edition of the Wild Food Festival in Mumbai, this listening experience catalogues people’s oral memories of wild foods through conversations invoking the familiarity of home.
'A Longing for Home Food’ Project, an offshoot of the curation at the eighth edition of the Serendipity Arts Festival, is a listening experience cataloguing people’s oral food memories and recipes through conversations that invoke a familiar sense of home.
What does it mean to be in tune with changing seasons? Janagiamma, a leader of the indigeneous Kurumba community in the Nilgiris, tells us that millets and bamboo are good for the monsoons.
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About the importance of wild foods
"Since I was an intuitive and irreverent cook, I tried to wing my way around baking and made lots of blunders"
"My mum’s visiting and made Mutton Chuka Curry from Shahu Patole’s book Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada."
An evening of cinema and conversation with the makers of ‘Against the Tide’ (2023)— held as part of The Locavore’s Mumbai Koli Project— explored the shifting tides of Mumbai’s Koli community and their changing relationship with the sea.