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Is Indian food actually healthy?
Its reputation is built on the richest restaurant dishes. Everyday cooking tells a much better story.
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Often, more than its reputation.
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Decode
Decode the cuisine in 10 minutes
Dal, spice, technique, and the logic that connects them.
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The 10-spice starter pantry
The essentials, what each one does, and how to use them.
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Food as preventive healthcare
The Indian idea of eating for wellbeing, and what science says.
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Is ghee good or bad for you?
The saturated-fat debate, fairly.
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Why fermentation matters
Idli, dosa, kanji: gut health & digestibility.
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Which cooking oil, and when?
Mustard, coconut, sesame, olive: what to use for what, and how not to ruin it.
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How old is this science?
What the Vedas and Ayurveda got right, thousands of years early, and honestly.
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How Ayurveda classifies food
The six tastes, warming vs cooling, heavy vs light, and what modern science makes of it.
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Grandmother was right
Twelve traditional kitchen tricks, and the food science behind each one.
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The Indian dairy toolkit
Dahi, chaas, makhan, ghee: what each is for, and why fermented dairy sits so lightly.
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Why soak it?
Soaked almonds, dal and dried fruit: the science, and where it is oversold.
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Homemade drinks, decoded
Aam panna, jaljeera, kanji, kadha: what each is actually good for.
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Organic, GM & your vegetables
Is organic healthier? Is broccoli "manufactured"? The honest, evidence-based picture.
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Pickles & chutneys, decoded
How salt, oil, acid and sun preserve a pickle, and the honest word on salt.
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Eating fruit with the seasons
India's fruit calendar, and the honest word on why seasonal helps, and on juice.
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Rice, wheat and the millet revival
Which grain, when: whole beats refined, rice is not the enemy, and millets are back.
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Sattvic food and the three gunas
A 2,000-year-old way of classifying food by its effect on the mind, held as heritage, not proof.
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Food and the mind
Blood sugar, the afternoon slump and the gut-brain axis, and eating light for a clear mind.
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Enough protein without meat?
How much you need, why the incomplete-protein worry is overstated, and the veg toolkit.
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Cooling and heating foods
Curd is cooling, mango is heating: what the science says, and why the wisdom still works.
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