cuisines

What They Ate in the Indus Valley

Lhendup G Bhutia

A civilisational menu

The Genealogy of Taste

Shylashri Shankar

What the food habits of childhood can do to our life

Good Taste in Movies

Rachel Dwyer

The sensual pleasures of food haven’t been fully explored in cinema

The Disputed Ancestry of Taste

Shylashri Shankar

Who will choose the winner in vegetables versus meat?

The King’s Meal

Nandini Nair

A lavish culinary journey with the subcontinent’s royal families

Mise-en-Cuisine

Shylashri Shankar

Eating scenes in films embody conflict or cooperation between the characters, inform or assign an individual or family’s place in society

Going Beetroot

Rachel Dwyer

Not feeling fruity? Go veg out

From An Imperial To A National Cuisine

Shylashri Shankar

If India’s cuisine was influenced by colonial and princely tastes before 1947, the driving force after Independence was the palate of the urban middle-class. The task of shaping the national cuisine was taken up by the menus of restaurants, cookbooks and magazines and later by TV and films