Beef In The Land Of Humans
To eat or not to eat? Liberal and progressive Goa is caught in the middle of a political battle over food habits.
Caste On A Platter: Food For Dalits
What constitutes Dalit food? There are many choices but no palatable answers.
Mid-Day Meal Scheme: We Need No Politics
MDM menu cannot be allowed to be determined by political parties operating on myopic interests instead of food and nutrition scientists
Food Insecurity: No Prayer For The Malnourished
Behind the record sales of Parle-G during the pandemic is India’s murky reality—lack of safety net and food security
A Pandit Must Know His Meat
The Kashmiri Pandit will eat his rogan josh as if his life depended on it
Goa On The Menu: Food And Family Through Time
Culinary slices of life involving a matronly figure and her brood
That Bitter Taste: When Food Becomes A Political Weapon
Food becomes a tool of politics when it acquires ethical messages of abstention or becomes a culinary aesthetic
Indigenous Food: The Not-So-Secret Ingredient For Sustainability
Sometimes, the way food gets positioned socially may have no relation to how science determines its nutritional value.
Food Apartheid: Non-vegetarians Not Allowed!
Mumbai’s cosmopolitanism is slowly giving way to food apartheid, as residents militantly police consumption of meat in their housing societies. And the hate is fast spreading across Maharashtra.
What Ignites Hatred In The Belly?
The new welfarism as part of the neoliberal reforms undertaken in early 1990s is yet to ensure that all citizens receive enough nutritious food
The Big Picture: Food In Cinemascope
Aradhana Seth has utilised Indian kitchens, and all objects and rituals associated with them, as a means of shaping a particular kind of onscreen imagery
Gourmand's Diary: Linking Local Food With People
Countries like Japan, France, Italy and Spain pay special attention to their food by telling stories about how they emerged, why people cook them and their relevance. But in India, we are stuck by the 'glamour' of Western food like pizzas and burgers.