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Punjabi, Bengali, Tamil, Kayastha, Baniya – the Indian subcontinent has more varieties of food than possibly any other place on Earth.

So much so that food writer and historian Pushpesh Pant argues it’s difficult to identify anything as “Indian food” at all.

On the fourth episode of Scroll Adda with Shoaib Daniyal, Pant speaks with erudition and humour about popular Indian food myths (did you know there’s no biryani in Lucknow?), how food intersects with identities such as caste and gender, and shares some of his favourite dishes.

Chapters:
00:00 - 0:00 Intro montage
02:28 - How he became a food writer
08:14 - There is no such thing as Indian food
13:17 - There is no such thing as Mughlai food
19:08 - Biryani or pulao?
25:12 - Food politics
31:27 - Caste and food
42:00 - Reverse snobbery around food
43:16 - Animal sacrifice
45:45 - Gender and food
49:52 - Should we write about Brahmin food?
01:01:37 - Pushpesh’s favourite foods

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