num_pages: 104
description: This book outlines the variety of cuisines food materials and dishes that collectively form Indian Food. It draws upon a range of sourcesliterature archeology epigraphic records anthropology philology botanical and genetical studiesto trace the history of Indian food: classification customs rituals and beliefs including the etymology of food terms. It shows how our wonderful Indian cuisine with all its regional variants is the outcome of food plants brought into India from numerous directions over thousands of years. And of a social ethic in which cleanliness was indeed next to godliness.
language: English
title: The Story of Our Food
publisher: Universities Press (India) Private Limited