Food

Monginis is loved across India today, and its origins are just as fantastical as the cakes it sells. Here’s how two Italian brothers made Bombay their home and gave us desserts we relished for generations.

In Ramasseri near Palakkad, a small group of families continues a long-standing idli-making practice that still draws visitors each morning.

Mornings move fast, and tiffins often follow the same routine. Across homes, parents are trying small swaps that fit into the rush while bringing in more variety and balance. Here’s a look inside a few such lunchboxes.

Manas Madhu shares how he quit his job to create an empire of banana chips with his venture Beyond Snacks, which earns him revenues worth crores.

Food writers Anisha Rachel Oommen and Aysha Tanya have compiled ‘A Kitchen of One's Own’, a community cookbook that documents heirloom family recipes from across India.

Think mangoes are only for smoothies or ice cream? Across India, mangoes are used in dal, rice, pickles and festive dishes, shaped by local ingredients and seasonal cooking traditions.

Chef Radhika Khandelwal’s dishes tell a story of roots, resilience, and reinvention. At Delhi’s Trouble Trouble at Fig & Maple, wild indigenous produce meets contemporary imagination.

Researchers under Dr Pallab Sinha Mahapatra at IIT Madras have developed a three-dimensional paper-based portable device that can detect adulteration, such as urea, detergent, soap, salt, H2O2, boric acid, and neutralisers in milk within 30 seconds.

Taste the pride of India’s orchards through these nine GI-tagged mangoes — each with its own flavour, folklore, and fiercely protected identity.

"From royal roots to colonial tales—find out how India’s favourite mangoes got their unique names.