Photograph showing a general street scene of Bhendi Bazar with horse-drawn trams in Bombay (Mumbai) taken by Bourne & Shepherd in the 1880s, part of the Earl of Jersey Collection, ‘India. Bombay to Madras’ album. The capital of Maharashtra on the west coast of India, Bombay was originally a group of fishing villages. By the…
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Portrait of Sweetmeat Seller
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The Story of Dosa And Sambhar
Food was rich and varied in South India in the first few centuries AD. There were at least five varieties of rice.There is a poetic description of “rice which looked like Jasmine buds ,the grains elongated like fingers, and separate from one another.Rice was mostly eaten boiled. DOSA or Dosai which is a fermented pancake…
Bazaar of Jaipur 1900’s
Photograph of the main street at Jaipur in Rajasthan, taken by Gobindram & Oodeyram in the 1900s. The photograph is part of an album containing views of various locations in India, formerly in the collection of Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome, (1850-1916) who was Commander in Chief of India between 1902…
Bazaar of Kolhapur 1894
The origin of the word Bazaar comes from Persian bazar and is thought to derive from the Pahlavi word baha-char meaning “the place of prices’. The term, bazaar, spread from Persia into Arabia and ultimately throughout the Middle East. View looking down over the rooftops to one of the bazaars of Kolhapur. Taken by an unknown…
Tea Plantation 1895
Photograph of a Tea Plantation at Sath Tal from Album of views of “Naini Tal’ taken by Lawrie & Co in 1895. Sath Tal (Seven Lakes) is in the Kumaon hills in the Naini Tal district. During the Colonial period, the British found tea imported from China was too expensive to satisfy the large demand…
The story of Vada Pav
The story of our beloved Vada pav.Vada pav is believed to have been invented in 1966. Ashok Vaidya, who had this vision which ultimately has become the taste of Mumbai. He saw hundreds of thousands of people and workers passing everyday on their work or to the textile Mills in suburbs such as Parel and…
Women Fruit Hawkers from 1873
Studio portrait of a Women Fruit hawkers posed beside their tray of fruits, one of a series of portrait studies of ethnic types and occupations taken by Bourne and Shepherd in the early 1870s. These photographs represent a common theme of traveller’s memoirs and diaries during the period of Colonial expansion in the latter half…
The story of Langar wali Dal
Dal have a special place in Indian cooking. It is one of the staple foods that are cooked everyday in our daily meal. There are a variety of dals one can prepare with and an array of dal recipes that goes region wise. This original Dal which was made in Western part of Punjab which is now in Pakistan…
INDIAN FOOD HISTORY 