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In the spice aisles of his local halal grocery store in East of England, Jonah Batambuze finds that the masala boxes and brands reveal more about caste than any conversation.
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Exactly a year ago, Chetasi Kane started an experiment in her kitchen. A few days of stirring, churning, and smelling later, and she had the final product: liquid gold, now bottled and sold as Ajji’s desi ghee across the UK.

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Beyond each Ramzan meal lies the quiet labour of women who plan, prepare, cook and host. As social media turns iftar into aesthetic display, Laraib Fatima Warsi explores what cooking during Ramzan means today and how women are redefining ‘enough’.

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Earlier this month, we spent the evening learning about seaweed from Gabriella D'Cruz marine conservationist and founder of The Good Ocean, who is working to bring locally harvested Indian seaweed into the country’s food ecosystem.

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India’s food systems are on the frontlines of climate change.

Join us as we reimagine sustainable nourishment for people and the planet

Register now at https://t.co/ZLVk3XloRr

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Sanskriti Bist @suibsters visits her Dehradun home to cook bhutwa (goat offal), with her mother, Meenu for #1000kitchens. The dish is the family’s favourite chakna and a small ode to what Holi used to be.

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In the wake of unceasing, unseasonal rains, Simran Moorjani speaks to other farmers to understand how this prolonged season of rain has affected them.

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If you ever wonder who makes your food look so damn amazing in photos, @squibsters is one such genius behind the lens.

Read about her process of food styling here 👇🏼
https://t.co/HTnJscdrPe

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Wrote a piece for .@GoyaJournal on what food styling is and what a day in my everyday life at work looks like ✨

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We’re thrilled to be featured in Goya Journal's 'Cookbook at the Bookshop' series! A huge thank you to Goya Journal @GoyaJournal for including us😊We hope you enjoy the cookbook recommendations shared in the video. Please take a look!

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You can shop Vishal's reccos at their store in Pune, or buy it online from their website.

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Presenting Bookshops & Cookbooks, where we team up with our favourite indie bookstores across India to bring you their most exciting cookbook reccos.

Our first bookstore is Pagdandi @Pagdandiworld in Pune, run by the loveliest Neha and Vishal.

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Pagdandi recommends:
1. Sindh: Sindhi Recipes and Stories from a Forgotten Land by Sapna Ajwani

2. Cook Korean!: A Comic Book with Recipes by Robin Ha

3. How to make the best coffee at home by James Hoffmann

4. Jevayla Ye: Everyday East Indian Recipes from Abby’s Hearth

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Developed some really yum recipes with bread from twenty seven bakehouse and .@GoyaJournal. One them is a very easy smashed pea, chimichurri with feta which is one of my fav brekkie/afternoon snacks. Its pea season also🫛

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Can the kulhad actually alter the flavour of your chai? Ruchika Agarwal goes in search of an answer. https://t.co/7Wa3nErEF6

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“Hum bhi mitti se bane hue hai toh swaad toh jamega hi.” Ramju Ali Mamad Kumbhar, of the Kumhar community comes from a lineage of pottery artisans based out of Bhuj, Gujarat.

Before he retired, Kumbhar would make upto 1,500 kulhads on his wheel every day.

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@eatnaru And yes, this is a 30-minute Zoom session, so you can join from anywhere. https://t.co/3ORvdVsyWi

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After a deliciously successful and fun 1st edition of Secret Sauce, we have a second chapter coming at you. This time we talk to Kavan Kuttappa, the man who dreamed up Bengaluru's @eatnaru, a 20-seater ramen bar that 3 years on, is still notoriously difficult to score a spot at.

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@eatnaru In this session, we will talk about
⁠•⁠ How he conceptualised this unique offering
•⁠ ⁠How he built it out from idea to execution
•⁠ ⁠How running a small-seater offering affects P&L
•⁠ ⁠What worked, and what didn’t
•⁠ ⁠What have been his markers of success

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Time to update your reading list for monsoon☔️

Check out what's cooking here: https://t.co/PUPAFvw1rr

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#TastyTiffin by author @archanaskitchen is featured among 4 recipe books to read this monsoon by @GoyaJournal.

Read here: https://t.co/DD7xKwi5dS