food

Brushstrokes: Aching Palates
An illustration of a feminine-presenting person wearing ornate headgear, jewellery and drapped in a pink veil. The person is positioned against a green background. A four-directional peacock design acts as a frame around the person. Inside the frame are the symbols for male, female and intersex. Along the four corners, the following words are written in red in Hijra Farsi: initiation, singing, clapping and death.
Brushstrokes: Aching Palates

This art collection bears the evocative title “Aching Palates”. Within its realm, each artwork embodies an emblematic act that accompanies…
By Anoushka Budhia
July 17, 2023
Brushstrokes: Aching Palates
The Feast
Brown and white ceramic container with mango pinkle in it.
The Feast

For everybody was more interested in the welcome sounds of cooks at work and the aromas wafting from the huge community kitchen, adjoining the hall, than in the puja.
By Sailaja P
July 17, 2023
The Feast
Pistachio
A single, slated pistachio kept upright on a black surface.
Pistachio

i wanna taste
your pistachio paste
lick that kulfi stick
get to the
thick green
freak shake
By Rajiv B
July 17, 2023
Pistachio
Lovers as plants in a kitchen garden
Top view of ripe, red tomatoes on the vine.
Lovers as plants in a kitchen garden

“Life’s too small without freshly cut coriander
Generously sprinkled on kadhai chicken.
Mint leaves blitzing their way with tomatoes
Ripe from the vine to the fingers dripping chutney –
Fragrances of earth between all this concrete.”
By Lavanya Arora
July 17, 2023
Lovers as plants in a kitchen garden
The Taste of Purple
A small pile of black rice or Oriza sativa used to make Kavuni Arisi halwa
The Taste of Purple

Stop everything! I have a condition that you must follow before you read any further, before you consume what I’ve…
By Hanish Srinivasan
July 17, 2023
The Taste of Purple
Place your orders
An overhead shot of a set table and people eating. There are white plates with different kinds of food and the individuals are towards the edges.
Place your orders

Food is some sort of extension of our bodies, our identities, and therefore food and sexuality intersect in a myriad ways.

By Shikha Aleya
July 17, 2023
Place your orders
Editorial – Food and Sexuality
Sliced oranges and lemons along with whole carrots, ginger, turmeric, and red chillies on a rough grey surface.
Editorial – Food and Sexuality

Food unites, but as we are sadly witnessing, it also divides. What people eat and how they eat it is related in many ways to class, caste, purchasing power, and other factors of social currency and control.
By TARSHI
July 17, 2023
Editorial – Food and Sexuality
Queer Bodies in the Kitchen: Narratives of Reclamation and Resistance
assorted-color ceramic bowls and saucers lot on white wooden shelves
Queer Bodies in the Kitchen: Narratives of Reclamation and Resistance

“A woman’s place is in the kitchen.” Most of us born in female-designated bodies, in a country like India, have…
By Silpi Bhaumik
August 20, 2024
Queer Bodies in the Kitchen: Narratives of Reclamation and Resistance
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