Around the world, Indigenous food cultures vanish because of industrialized agriculture and a shifting, Western-influenced concept of the ideal diet. Food researcher Aparna Pallavi explores why once-essential culinary traditions disappear from people's lives and memories almost without notice -- and serves up a subtle solution to revitalize our ...

Around the world, indigenous food cultures disappear because of industrialized agriculture and a shifting, often Western-influenced concept of the ideal diet. Journalist and food researcher Aparna Pallavi makes an urgent case for preserving these cultures and shedding the stigma-laden attitudes that are driving them into extinction.

As a journalist with over two decades of experience covering agriculture practices, Aparna takes us back to the wisdom of ancient agriculture and how it is inherently climate-resilient. She brings to our eyes, an erratic rainfall-proof agricultural practice - thus helping the farmers against the effects of climate change.