Bread Is Life: Kashmir’s Sacred Flame - Whetstone Audio Dispatch
What if a simple loaf of bread could tell the story of an entire place, its resilience, its politics and poetry? In this episode of Whetston...
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Bad Table Manners
Bad Table Manners pushes the boundaries of food storytelling in South Asia. Despite a universal love of delicious food, South Asian communities’ narratives and food practices maintain social...
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Gardening on Water: The Dal’s Ancient Floating Gardens
Gardening on Water: The Dal’s Ancient Floating Gardens For thousands of years, Kashmir has been called jannat (heaven) by Urdu poets, travel...
Revolutionary Seed: Voice to Indian Farmers
In September 2020, the government of India approved a series of agricultural acts, often referred to as the “Farm Bills.” What was proposed...
How Indian Food Became Frustratingly Hip
Thanks to the cool-ification of Indian food, traditional ingredients from the subcontinent, like turmeric and ghee, are now repackaged and r...
Beyond Momos: Imaginary Homelands and Tibetan Food in India
Beginning with a brief history of Tibetans in exile, this episode explores how food can create imaginary homelands, even if it means that au...
Ripples and Tipples: How Partition Changed Indian Food
In 1947, the British finally left India after 300 years of colonial rule. They created many arbitrary borders as they left, the most promine...
Mid-Day Meal
The Mid-Day Meal feeds millions of schoolgoing Indian children daily, and has widely been considered one of India’s most successful welfare...
Where There Are No Butchers, There Are Cinnamon Buns
This episode flips the script on caste and food by celebrating and exploring the food practices of caste oppressed communities. Is there suc...
The Dream of Two Kitchens
This episode presents a micro-history of contemporary Indian kitchen design, as told by Manju Sara Rajan, the editor of a prominent design m...
Eating Capital
Eating Capital focuses on the restaurant business in Delhi and Mumbai, an industry that, according to most experts, has irrevocably transfor...
The Juice of Mango Clichés
To speak about Indian mangoes may be cliché, but because Indians never seem to tire of the subject, there’s always some juice. London-based...
The Scale Show
This episode unravels the discrepancy between the illusion of oceanic abundance that our modern pescatarian diets are premised upon, and the...
Trailer - Bad Table Manners
Here’s a peek at what’s coming up in the first season of #BadTableManners, launching this Wed, Dec 15!