A Visual Encylopaedia
of Indian Foods
What does Indian Food and Cooking look like?
Cooking the A-Z of Indian exploring ingredients, ingredients, preparations and concepts that are unique to the Indian food narrative—its cultivation, preparation, consumption, myth and mythology.
I am curious to know what an ingredient means to a people, how do they cook it and how do they feel nourished? While this conversation reveals the tears in our social fabric, cooking through the foods of diverse people is a wonderful way to discover how powerful and unifying food can be. Same ingredients, different flavours.
I have over 20 years of research, field work and ethnographic understanding of culinary practices in India. It came together with an idea.
Using the alphabet as a way to list ingredients, preparations and food concepts unique to India seemed a logical way to capture the information I had amassed. Take a look at what ‘A’ looks like.
A
Ingredients, Preparations & Food concepts
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