Food Archives

Science, Spirituality, and the Psychobabble of Sadhguru

It would have been fine if the Sadhguru, aka Jaggi Vasudev, were spreading whatever garden-variety message of peace and brotherhood he wanted to advance. It’s when he dumbsplains science that things begin to get tricky.

Aditya Bhalla July 8, 2016

POV

My Name is Khan and I Don’t Fast! Can Non-Muslims Please Calm Down

Each time I open my dabba at lunch hour during Ramzan, the non-Muslim people at work gasp and ask, “You aren’t fasting?” Food defines their understanding of Islam and anyone in violation of that tenet threatens their understanding of the entire faith.

Karima Khan June 1, 2016

Gender

Ladies Never Get the Leg Piece

As a child, what I hated most about hosting, was having to wait until I got to eat. At first, I thought we let the men eat first because they’re older than us. I realised the practice had everything to do with my gender when I had to serve delicious saalan to my much younger male cousin.

Karima Khan May 23, 2016

Grub

The Perfect Winter Soup is Here

My grandmom’s Goan-style chicken, sweet corn, and vegetable soup is all you need in the winter.

Damian D'souza May 8, 2016

Culture

Why I Look Forward to Baasi Eid As Much As Eid

Eid is great from a purely gluttonous point of view, but the day after Eid is the real deal. Baasi Eid is what food dreams are made of. It’s an afterparty for two – me and my hungry soul, where I gorge on the leftovers. The dress code is a pair of comfy pyjamas and the preferred and only music is the slurping of my fingers.

Karima Khan May 1, 2016

Grub

Hunger Games! In An Unhealthy Relationship With Food This Pandemic

Just like everyone else I was fed up of being cooped inside their houses, waiting on my hunches for the pandemic to end. Helplessness took over me. Food became the only focal point of my life that I could wield control over. That is, until it started wielding control over me.

Sahej Marwah April 27, 2016

Gender

Look Who’s Not Cooking: Why My Children Will Never Eat Maa Ke Haath Ka Khana

When I was growing up, Maa’s kitchen had some manner of grinding, slow cooking going on at all times. But my utter lack of initiative when it comes to feeding people ghar ka khaana has been the cause of great pain to women in my family.

Sonali Kokra April 13, 2016

Pop Culture

Hey Potheads, Leave the Food Alone

Stoners bug me because they eat everything. They open the fridge, and they start polishing off all its contents – even the salt and pepper and half-cut nimbu and salad dressing.

Akhil Sood April 1, 2016

Grub

Some Wafers for the Kadhi Chawal, Please: MasterChef Australia & the Importance of Family TV Time

My parents have never been voracious foodies like me, but MasterChef Australia changed that. They went from merely eating to live, to living to eat. Come have lunch with us and you might hear mother say, “This kadhi chawal is nice but it’s missing a little crunch. Pass the Garden Wafers na.”

Sagar Gwalani March 13, 2016

POV

All I Want from 2017 is…

Slow down a little bit, 2017 – in the good parts, the happy parts, the cake-eating parts. The others, you have my blessings to do your usual weirdass shit.

Vatsala Mamgain March 10, 2016