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Visit Oya’s Umami, a new restaurant in Goa that serves authentic Naga food

adminMay 8, 202509 mins

“Food, for all of us, is a memory,” says Ati Aier with a smile, as I bite into a fluffy, cloud-like mushroom bao. “For me, it was my grandmother’s amrusu, a hearty rice gruel with bamboo shoot juice, laced with the sharpness of chillies.” Ati at one of her pop-ups | Photo Credit: Special arrangement…

Bug appétit | Is India ready for insect protein?

adminFebruary 7, 2025030 mins

On my farm in Kodaikanal, insects were ‘signallers’: fireflies in August meant it was going to be a good monsoon, aphids meant my neighbours had been spraying pesticides, and the literal thousands of winged termites that would hover under every lightbulb in my house, just for a few days every year, meant the monsoon was…