Priya Mani’s food encyclopedia originated in chilly Denmark but it has the warmth of a desi kitchen
When Man and her husband, Vinay Venkatraman, her partner of the National Institute of Design and co -founder of the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design, moved to the Danish capital in 2007, she took the recreation of the dishes of her own children. One day, inspired by the book Illustrated foods from India By KT ACHAYA, she started to document them. “Like many other parents living in a diaspric community, I had to find ways to connect children to their inheritance. We could not do this through the language, but the possibilities were endless with food, ”reflects the 43 -year -old man. What started in November 2020 as a work of love, a reverie of past meals prepared and shared, quickly evolved towards the Visual Encyclopedia of Indian foodA meticulously stylish and literacy trip through Indian cuisine, brought into life on Instagram. Each letter has found its culinary muse: “A” came to life with APONG, a traditional rice beer from the Maling Tribut in Northeast India, while “B” presented Bebinca, the Goan dessert magnificently in layers with pillow contours. “R” was represented by Raita and “L” by Lassi. From A to Z, each dish has been cooked, stylish and photographed by man itself. Although the series is not yet entirely published on her account, she continues to take place as an astonishing tribute to the Indian culinary heritage.
