Thanks to the cool-ification of Indian food, traditional ingredients from the subcontinent, like turmeric and ghee, are now repackaged and resold in Western and Westernized markets as if they were “new” discoveries. Cleaned up, minimalistic design labels are often employed to give the familiar and unfamiliar look, and conceal what one can argue is a recolonization of the Global South by the Global North. The U.S.-based academic Rumya Putcha tells us why this hipster Indian food is problematic, while Vidya Balachander, current South Asia editor at Whetstone, helps us unpack the idea of the global supermarket.
Bad Table Manners is part of Whetstone Radio Collective. Learn more about Bad Table Manners here.
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Revolutionary Seed: Voice to Indian Farmers
Beyond Momos: Imaginary Homelands and Tibetan Food in India
Ripples and Tipples: How Partition Changed Indian Food
Mid-Day Meal
Where There Are No Butchers, There Are Cinnamon Buns
The Dream of Two Kitchens
Eating Capital
The Juice of Mango Clichés
The Scale Show
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