Conscious Lifestyle
5 Root Vegetables That Will Keep Your Body Warm in Winter
Winter us synonymous with root vegetables, and there are all sorts of purples, yellows, and whites in the market right now. Unfortunately, most of us seem to think that root...
5 Root Vegetables That Will Keep Your Body Warm in Winter
Winter us synonymous with root vegetables, and there are all sorts of purples, yellows, and whites in the market right now. Unfortunately, most of us seem to think that root...
How to Identify Good Quality Maida?
We’re living in times when wheat is facing a lot of bad press, and Maida, even worse. Consuming wheat in its pure form is not as harmful, however, as consuming...
How to Identify Good Quality Maida?
We’re living in times when wheat is facing a lot of bad press, and Maida, even worse. Consuming wheat in its pure form is not as harmful, however, as consuming...
January 2019 Guide for Conscious Eating
New Year, new resolutions. To eat well, to know where one’s food is coming from, to eat consciously not just for ourselves but also for the land. Let us kick-start...
January 2019 Guide for Conscious Eating
New Year, new resolutions. To eat well, to know where one’s food is coming from, to eat consciously not just for ourselves but also for the land. Let us kick-start...
What is Dalia?
The term “Dalia” is often used to connote a grain; people tend to confuse it for a wonder grain that checks all the boxes on a “good carbs” list. While...
What is Dalia?
The term “Dalia” is often used to connote a grain; people tend to confuse it for a wonder grain that checks all the boxes on a “good carbs” list. While...
December 2018 Guide for Conscious Eating
’Tis the season! It is, officially, winter in most parts of the country and the markets are full of some wondrous produce. Purple yams, eggplants that turn to silk when...
December 2018 Guide for Conscious Eating
’Tis the season! It is, officially, winter in most parts of the country and the markets are full of some wondrous produce. Purple yams, eggplants that turn to silk when...
Can We Use Ghee Instead of Butter/Oil in Baking?
Ghee has always enjoyed a special status in traditional Indian cooking and is heavily endorsed by Ayurveda for a plethora of health benefits. The world of baking is only recently...
Can We Use Ghee Instead of Butter/Oil in Baking?
Ghee has always enjoyed a special status in traditional Indian cooking and is heavily endorsed by Ayurveda for a plethora of health benefits. The world of baking is only recently...
5 Unusual Uses of Ghee Apart From Cooking
Apart from cooking (and baking, as we have already discovered), Ghee has several domestic uses ranging from managing a cold to making your own perfume! Here are our top 5...
5 Unusual Uses of Ghee Apart From Cooking
Apart from cooking (and baking, as we have already discovered), Ghee has several domestic uses ranging from managing a cold to making your own perfume! Here are our top 5...
November 2018 Guide to Conscious Eating
Testing times begin! The festive season is well underway and the weather is also changing to a cooler, more appetite-friendly one! It’s hardly fair on your system (and your...
November 2018 Guide to Conscious Eating
Testing times begin! The festive season is well underway and the weather is also changing to a cooler, more appetite-friendly one! It’s hardly fair on your system (and your...
5 Digestion-Friendly Spices and How To Use Them
With the monsoon gone and winter afoot, a host of festivals are waiting in the wings and with them, a plethora of indulgences. Sales of antacid and carminatives see...
5 Digestion-Friendly Spices and How To Use Them
With the monsoon gone and winter afoot, a host of festivals are waiting in the wings and with them, a plethora of indulgences. Sales of antacid and carminatives see...
October 2018 Guide to Conscious Eating
Festivities ahead! Feasting, fasting and everything in between! At the same time, October heat is back with a vengeance. So while we plan our late night desserts and card...
October 2018 Guide to Conscious Eating
Festivities ahead! Feasting, fasting and everything in between! At the same time, October heat is back with a vengeance. So while we plan our late night desserts and card...
Naini's Food Sense: Salts
In Gujarat there is an interesting custom followed the day after Diwali – young boys in the rural villages collect salt from the evaporated ponds and distribute it to...
Naini's Food Sense: Salts
In Gujarat there is an interesting custom followed the day after Diwali – young boys in the rural villages collect salt from the evaporated ponds and distribute it to...
Complete Guide on Different Types of Pulses and Lentils
Here is a ready reckoner of some of the commonly used daals/legumes/beans/pulses we use across the country and a few ideas for using them: Pigeon Pea (Toor/Tuvar/Arhar) While tender...
Complete Guide on Different Types of Pulses and Lentils
Here is a ready reckoner of some of the commonly used daals/legumes/beans/pulses we use across the country and a few ideas for using them: Pigeon Pea (Toor/Tuvar/Arhar) While tender...
What Makes Organic Pulses Different?
To put it simply, organic beans and pulses, like other organic foods, are grown without the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and are therefore, free from any harmful...
What Makes Organic Pulses Different?
To put it simply, organic beans and pulses, like other organic foods, are grown without the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and are therefore, free from any harmful...
September 2018 Guide to Conscious Eating
The monsoon clouds are on their way out from most parts of the country and the festive season has already started. Our systems are just about recovering from the...
September 2018 Guide to Conscious Eating
The monsoon clouds are on their way out from most parts of the country and the festive season has already started. Our systems are just about recovering from the...
What is Black Rice? How To Include it in Your Daily Diet?
Black rice was once forbidden in China not because it looked unusual but because it had such high nutrient value that it was only reserved for the consumption of royalty....
What is Black Rice? How To Include it in Your Daily Diet?
Black rice was once forbidden in China not because it looked unusual but because it had such high nutrient value that it was only reserved for the consumption of royalty....
August 2018 Guide to Conscious Eating
The month of Ashaadh comes to an end around mid-August and that is a sign that the monsoon will slowly begin its retreat from most of western and southern...
August 2018 Guide to Conscious Eating
The month of Ashaadh comes to an end around mid-August and that is a sign that the monsoon will slowly begin its retreat from most of western and southern...
A Complete Guide on Poha and Why It's Good For You?
Besides being eaten as a cooked whole grain or milled as flour to make breads of, rice is consumed in several avatars. However, for people fighting diabetes and for those...
A Complete Guide on Poha and Why It's Good For You?
Besides being eaten as a cooked whole grain or milled as flour to make breads of, rice is consumed in several avatars. However, for people fighting diabetes and for those...
July 2018 Guide to Conscious Eating
It’s time to bid a temporary adieu to your standard leafy greens—palak and methi don’t survive well in the monsoon, and the same applies to lettuces as well. Besides,...
July 2018 Guide to Conscious Eating
It’s time to bid a temporary adieu to your standard leafy greens—palak and methi don’t survive well in the monsoon, and the same applies to lettuces as well. Besides,...
India’s Indigenous Rice Varieties (And What To Do With Them)
Rice was first cultivated in China, from where it came to northern India and Bengal, and eventually, reached the southern states. One of the earliest records of Indian agriculture...
India’s Indigenous Rice Varieties (And What To Do With Them)
Rice was first cultivated in China, from where it came to northern India and Bengal, and eventually, reached the southern states. One of the earliest records of Indian agriculture...
June 2018 Guide for Conscious Eating
In some parts of the country, the monsoon has arrived already while in others, it is, literally, at the doorstep! Humidity levels are at their peak, and fresh produce...
June 2018 Guide for Conscious Eating
In some parts of the country, the monsoon has arrived already while in others, it is, literally, at the doorstep! Humidity levels are at their peak, and fresh produce...
Amaranth: Why Is It Called The Ancient Superfood?
Ramdana, Rajgira, Amaranth—one tiny seed, so many names! All over the country, we have eaten this plant for generations in its many avatars—as a green or purple leaf of...
Amaranth: Why Is It Called The Ancient Superfood?
Ramdana, Rajgira, Amaranth—one tiny seed, so many names! All over the country, we have eaten this plant for generations in its many avatars—as a green or purple leaf of...
May 2018 Guide to Conscious Eating
As if April wasn’t hot enough, May has arrived, and how! Most of the country is indoors if they can help it, perpetually exhausted under a whirring fan or...
May 2018 Guide to Conscious Eating
As if April wasn’t hot enough, May has arrived, and how! Most of the country is indoors if they can help it, perpetually exhausted under a whirring fan or...
How Barley Beats the Heat?
If you’ve grown up in India, it is most likely that you were made to drink barley water as a child. It would have, probably, been cloaked in lime...
How Barley Beats the Heat?
If you’ve grown up in India, it is most likely that you were made to drink barley water as a child. It would have, probably, been cloaked in lime...
April 2018 Guide to Conscious Eating
April opens with an exhausting stillness and relentless heat; occasional lashings of hot air draft in, if at all, through the windows, and with it, out goes all inspiration...
April 2018 Guide to Conscious Eating
April opens with an exhausting stillness and relentless heat; occasional lashings of hot air draft in, if at all, through the windows, and with it, out goes all inspiration...
Naini's Food Sense: Fats and Oils
For years our grandmothers told us to eat cow’s ghee as an aid for the whole body. We believed fats were bad, and now we are finally realising the...
Naini's Food Sense: Fats and Oils
For years our grandmothers told us to eat cow’s ghee as an aid for the whole body. We believed fats were bad, and now we are finally realising the...
Naini's Food Sense: Spices
I like to think of spices as the magic ingredients that make the art of cooking enjoyable and culinary creations full of flavour. The spice box in my kitchen...
Naini's Food Sense: Spices
I like to think of spices as the magic ingredients that make the art of cooking enjoyable and culinary creations full of flavour. The spice box in my kitchen...
Book Review: Culture of Taste
This is not your average recipe book. This is a compendium of knowledge that explains how nature lies at the heart of our culture, food, and nutrition. The Centre of...
Book Review: Culture of Taste
This is not your average recipe book. This is a compendium of knowledge that explains how nature lies at the heart of our culture, food, and nutrition. The Centre of...
January 2018 Guide for Conscious Eating
Its resolution time! After the usual end-of-year indulgences, it is time to think fit, but it is also time to think Conscious. Time to think about the distance that food...
January 2018 Guide for Conscious Eating
Its resolution time! After the usual end-of-year indulgences, it is time to think fit, but it is also time to think Conscious. Time to think about the distance that food...
December 2017 Guide to Conscious Eating by Conscious Food
Despite a temporary rise in heat and humidity, the winters are decidedly here. Why, even Mumbai is bringing out its warm wear! The red carrots and sweet green peas are...
December 2017 Guide to Conscious Eating by Conscious Food
Despite a temporary rise in heat and humidity, the winters are decidedly here. Why, even Mumbai is bringing out its warm wear! The red carrots and sweet green peas are...
5 Indian Foods To Keep Your Body Warm During Winter
Both Ayurveda and ancient Chinese medicine seem to agree that foods we consume have a certain predetermined effect on our body. Broadly, foods can be categorized according to their “warming”...
5 Indian Foods To Keep Your Body Warm During Winter
Both Ayurveda and ancient Chinese medicine seem to agree that foods we consume have a certain predetermined effect on our body. Broadly, foods can be categorized according to their “warming”...
November 2017 Guide for Conscious Eating
The greatest thing about the Indian winter is the abundance of fruit and vegetables that it brings with it. After the extended monsoon this year, the markets are finally bursting...
November 2017 Guide for Conscious Eating
The greatest thing about the Indian winter is the abundance of fruit and vegetables that it brings with it. After the extended monsoon this year, the markets are finally bursting...
October 2017 Guide for Conscious Eating
After a period of fasting, gut cleansing, and calorie burning, we should be all set for the festive season. Diets be damned, bring on the laddoos! But (there’s always a...
October 2017 Guide for Conscious Eating
After a period of fasting, gut cleansing, and calorie burning, we should be all set for the festive season. Diets be damned, bring on the laddoos! But (there’s always a...
7 Foods You Can Eat When Fasting For Navratri & Shraavan
“Fasting” literally means abstinence or a conscious reduction of select or all foods and/or drink for a specified period of time. You will agree, however, that modern day fasting is...
7 Foods You Can Eat When Fasting For Navratri & Shraavan
“Fasting” literally means abstinence or a conscious reduction of select or all foods and/or drink for a specified period of time. You will agree, however, that modern day fasting is...
5 Delicious Ways You Can Include Makhana in Your Diet
Not all of us know that the Phool Makhana or Foxnut is, actually, not a nut but the seed of a particular variety of water lily, and grows abundantly...
5 Delicious Ways You Can Include Makhana in Your Diet
Not all of us know that the Phool Makhana or Foxnut is, actually, not a nut but the seed of a particular variety of water lily, and grows abundantly...
4 Healthy and Natural Alternatives To Sugar
The one job that all sugars do, irrespective of the processing they have undergone, is to provide the body with glucose, which the body converts to energy. Having said that,...
4 Healthy and Natural Alternatives To Sugar
The one job that all sugars do, irrespective of the processing they have undergone, is to provide the body with glucose, which the body converts to energy. Having said that,...
September 2017 Guide for Conscious Eating
It may all seem glum now that the festivities have hit a temporary pause, but there is reason to rejoice—here’s why! Khakras: After the heavy indulgence of the Ganpati festival,...
September 2017 Guide for Conscious Eating
It may all seem glum now that the festivities have hit a temporary pause, but there is reason to rejoice—here’s why! Khakras: After the heavy indulgence of the Ganpati festival,...
4 Types Of Prasad Cooked by Indians on Ganesh Chaturthi
This food-loving deity is easy to love, and is greatly pampered across the country. Our rich and varied culinary heritage ensures that we have a plethora of offerings ready for...
4 Types Of Prasad Cooked by Indians on Ganesh Chaturthi
This food-loving deity is easy to love, and is greatly pampered across the country. Our rich and varied culinary heritage ensures that we have a plethora of offerings ready for...
Why Ghee is Good for You? 3 Tests To Check Purity of Ghee
There was once a time in the culinary history of India when we only used ghee for cooking—would you believe it? This liquid gold was painstakingly made in every...
Why Ghee is Good for You? 3 Tests To Check Purity of Ghee
There was once a time in the culinary history of India when we only used ghee for cooking—would you believe it? This liquid gold was painstakingly made in every...
Benefits of Sprout and How To Do It Correctly?
In India, we’re not new to the concept of sprouting. Given the variety of grains and legumes that are indigenous to the country, we have grown up eating Moong sprouts...
Benefits of Sprout and How To Do It Correctly?
In India, we’re not new to the concept of sprouting. Given the variety of grains and legumes that are indigenous to the country, we have grown up eating Moong sprouts...
