Conscious Lifestyle
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. ...
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. ...
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 picks!...
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 picks!...
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 a...
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 a...
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 people,...
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 people,...
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...
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...
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 elements...
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 elements...
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...
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 which...
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 which...
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 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 or...
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 need...
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 need...
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 always...
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 always...
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...
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”...
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 in...
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 in...
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...
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...
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 household...
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 household...
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...
