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Destination Chettinad: heritage festival spotlights the region’s food, culture and arts

Destination Chettinad: heritage festival spotlights the region’s food, culture and arts

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At the centre of the turbulent Karaikudi market, coloured by daily life, is an unexpectedly quiet oasis: a functional home, aged 108, where nine generations have lived and laughed, shared and fought, celebrated and cried. Lovingly referred to as periya veedu by the family, parts of the dining courtyard of this Chettiar mansion is now […]

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The original food influencers | Meet the keepers of heirloom recipes from India’s diverse culinary traditions

The original food influencers | Meet the keepers of heirloom recipes from India’s diverse culinary traditions

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(L to R) Meenakshi Meyyappan; Khan Rafiq Waza; Ummi Abdulla; Jane DSouza. At a time when the country’s contemporary foodscape is transforming rapidly — influenced by foreign cuisines and experiments, see-sawing between isms and social media fads — we remember the custodians who are the repositories of traditional food knowledge. The names of India’s many […]

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