Heritage cookbooks: How these Mumbaikars are preserving India’s culinary legacy

Updated On: 12 August, 2024 11:11 AM IST | Mumbai | Nascimento Pinto

As India celebrates its Independence Day on August 15, we speak to Mumbaikars who have not only been preserving but also documenting their culinary heritage through recipes and recipes books that have been passed down from the pre-Independence era

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Radhika Mathur knew her grandmother Bina Mathur and was able to spend time with her for over two decades before she passed away but the latter’s legacy lives on through a cookbook. It not only has traditional recipes but every kind that the matriarch wanted to experiment with over the years. Among them is one that even has a pre-Independence connection. She shares, “We have a culinary connection to the colonial times with Marmite. The whole family loves Marmite and my grandma made a soup with the last bits of Marmite in the jar.” A delicious dish that has become a favourite in the Mathur household over the years.

It is one of the many recipes that have been maintained in the recipe book that her grandmother collected all her life but first started putting together in the early 1980s. She adds, “She loved cooking everything other than basic dal, sabzi and roti. She loved her baked vegetables, different sharbats and chaats.” Today, Radhika’s family still maintains the cookbook, but she has also scanned it to help continue the legacy and have access to it, anywhere she goes.

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