Food & Public Distribution
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Why the sandesh is the perfect representation of cultural reforms in 19th-century Calcutta
Priyadarshini Chatterjee
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Why Kolkata’s Salt Lake and delivery apps are a match made in food heaven
Chandrima Pal
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Photos of Naanwais, the Afghan bakers who are recreating the taste of home in Delhi
Aabid Shafi
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What is ‘Indian food’ anyway? Even the epics revealed little of the menu, wrote Buddhadeva Bose
Buddhadeva Bose
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The forgotten story of India’s Julia Child who went from being a homemaker to food writer to TV chef
Aditya Iyer
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Have you cooked a Ding-Dong or Ding-Ding? This Indian recipe book from the 1800s shows you how
Anisha Rachel Oommen Aysha Tanya
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The return of the nadru: How Kashmir’s beloved root vegetable made a comeback into its kitchens
Sharanya Deepak
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‘Poverty porn’: Series on hunger in India on World Press Photo’s Instagram account prompts outrage
Scroll Staff
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How intolerance has left India’s culinary culture poorer
Nandita Haksar
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Watch: Andhra official beats up people crowding a new low cost Anna Canteen
Scroll Staff
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From night jasmine to banana blossoms: India’s centuries-old love affair with edible flowers
Priyadarshini Chatterjee
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A film series reminds us why delicious food and a grandmother’s love remain linked in our minds
Zinnia Ray Chaudhuri
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Centuries after my ancestors left Kashmir, my ties with its food are unbroken
Sarina Kamini
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In Odisha’s rice bowl, suspected starvation death raises the spectre of hunger stalking the elderly
Priya Ranjan Sahu
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A restaurant on the India-Pakistan border is building bridges between the nations with food and art
Sharanya Deepak
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This old Parsi cookbook is as singular as the community whose recipes it documents
Anisha Rachel Oommen Aysha Tanya
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What a meeting with Anthony Bourdain taught an Indian food writer in Sri Lanka
Vidya Balachander
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In Kolkata, haleem is bringing together communities during Ramzan
Chandrima Pal
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A 67-year-old Tamil cookbook taught me what shiny food sites could not
Meera Ganapathi
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The world on a plate: Why pop-ups are the flavour of the season for top chefs in India and Sri Lanka
Vidya Balachander