Welcome to this edition of Open Tab, our series highlighting what we're up to at Diaspora Co. HQ! We're grateful to be sharing what we've been reading, watching, cooking, and listening to. This month, we're gearing up for our upcoming masala launches and still basking in the glow of a particularly buzzy week celebrating our fifth birthday.
Reading: This list of caste-related books on food, compiled after attending a Beyond the Plate talk by The Locavore on caste and food:
📕 Vasant Moon's Growing Up Untouchable in India
📕 Bama’s Karukku
📕 Prof. Kancha Ilaiah's Why I Am Not A Hindu
📕 Sharankumar Limbale's The Outcaste
📕 Rahee Punyashloka's essay Strange Fruit
📕 Dr. Ambedkar's collection of essays Beef, Brahmin and Broken Men
📕 Sharmila Rege's Isn't This Plate Indian? — a research work turned into a book!
Watching: Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar's The Untold Truth
Cooking:
🍳 Asha's Very Diaspora PSL (Pumpkin Spice Latte)
🍳 These Tandoori Chicken tacos made with Pragati Turmeric tortillas, created with our friends at Masienda! FYI if you've been eyeing some treats, the code DIASPORA will get you 20% off on Masienda.com!
🍳 Our collab pasta, the Turmeric Reginetti, also made with our Pragati Turmeric and Sfoglini's Reginetti pasta!
Listening:
🎧 This episode of the Singapore Noodles Podcast on chicken curry and moving beyond singularity
🎧 This episode of Bad Table Manners on how partition changed Indian food
🎧 This mashup of 90s Tamil smash hit Urvasi by Benny Dayal!
