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Food Memories

What Does it Take to Chronicle Culinary Memory?

February 9, 2023
The Locavore Team

Author and cultural historian Dr. Tarana Husain Khan talks to The Locavore about tasting egg flip as a child, the tricky business of recording oral history, and growing up in a family of armchair cooks.

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Food Memories

‘Being a father transformed my relationship to food and cooking’

September 26, 2022
The Locavore Team

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.

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Food Memories

‘Keerai pori is something I enjoy during the monsoon’

July 19, 2022
Jestin Pauls (interview) & Sharanya Manivannan (translation From Tamil)

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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Food Memories

‘My Basic Tendency is to Experiment’

July 4, 2022
Thomas Zacharias

Professor and chef Kiranmayi Bhushi spoke to us about cooking for artists in Chicago, her grandfather’s farm in coastal Andhra Pradesh, and Lakshmi Charu,a traditional dish that’s making a comeback.

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Main Course

Yarkhandi Pulao

May 27, 2022
Kunzes Angmo

Ladakhi cuisine is a lot more than just momos and thukpas. Kunzes Angmo’s recipe for Yarkhandi Pulao reflects the region’s links and influences from other cultures and lands.

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Desserts and Mithai

Sev Na Larvas

May 2, 2022
Lamiya Amiruddin

An Eid specialty, the Sev Na Larvas is a traditional sweet made in Surti households of the Dawoodi Bohra community to celebrate the auspicious occasion of Eid Ul Fitr.

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Inside My Kitchen

Kitchen Hand-Me-Downs: An Evolving Collection

April 1, 2022
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.

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Desserts and Mithai

Malai Na Khajla

April 1, 2022
Lamiya Amiruddin

Flaky pastries filled with cream, a delicacy in the Bohra community.

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Food Memories

Pastry Chef Heena Punwani’s Baking Journey Began in Someone Else’s Kitchen

April 1, 2022
Thomas Zacharias

Do early associations of food shape our tastes and identity? Pastry chef Heena Punwani speaks to chef Thomas Zacharias about growing up with Enid Blyton books, her mother’s flavourful butter chicken, and the first wedding cake that she ever baked.

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