Open Book: Re-orienting Taste
Program type
Talk/Conversations
Talk/Conversations
Apr 12 2025
Saturday
04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
Age Group
Adults
Free
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About the event
In this book-talk, co-authors Tejaswini Niranjana, Shalini Krishan, and Anumitra Ghosh Dastidar, bring India and China into conversation through food, tracing shared ingredients, philosophies, and culinary histories across borders. Drawing from Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine, the book explores how food acts as both medicine and meaning, shaped by cultural exchange, colonial legacies, and evolving taste.
Through recipes and reflections, the authors reimagine taste as a transnational language. From historic Chinatowns in Calcutta to contemporary kitchens across Asia, this book invites us to rethink what connects us through the everyday act of eating.
Language: English.
What will you learn?
Participants will learn about the culinary histories, ingredients and medicinal practices of China and India.
Who is it for?
This book discussion is for food enthusiasts, historians, and anyone interested in the cultural history of spices and culinary traditions.
Through recipes and reflections, the authors reimagine taste as a transnational language. From historic Chinatowns in Calcutta to contemporary kitchens across Asia, this book invites us to rethink what connects us through the everyday act of eating.
Language: English.
What will you learn?
Participants will learn about the culinary histories, ingredients and medicinal practices of China and India.
Who is it for?
This book discussion is for food enthusiasts, historians, and anyone interested in the cultural history of spices and culinary traditions.
Led By
Edible Archives
Each of us has an edible archive of our own, comprising all the foods we have ever eaten. Our collective...
Tejaswini Niranjana
Tejaswini Niranjana is a writer, translator and scholar based at Gitam University, Bangalore, India, where she is Director of the...
Shalini Krishan
Shalini Krishan is the co-founder of Edible Archives, an award-winning restaurant based in Goa, India. She works at the intersection...
Anumitra Ghosh Dastidar
Anumitra Ghosh Dastidar is a chef and co-founder of Edible Archives, an award-winning restaurant and research-based culinary project in Goa,...
The Venue
Western Hajj Terminal - Jeddah - Library - Public Programs Building
Haj Parking A, Hajj Terminal West, 2023 AIRPORT HAJJ ROAD, King Abdulaziz International Airport, Jeddah 23721
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Free Parking
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Wheelchair Accessible
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Free Wi-Fi
Wheelchair Accessible
Family Friendly
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