Bad Table Manners
Bad Table Manners pushes the boundaries of food storytelling in South Asia. Despite a universal love of delicious food, South Asian communities’ narratives and food practices maintain social hierarchies, caste inequalities, and racial and gender discrimination. In spanning both “high” and “low” food cultures, this podcast deconstructs monolithic notions of South Asian or “Indian” food by diving into micro contexts of households, restaurants, neighborhoods, streets and communities. It also reveal...
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Episodes (13)
Bread Is Life: Kashmir’s Sacred Flame - Whetstone Audio Dispatch
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Gardening on Water: The Dal’s Ancient Floating Gardens
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Revolutionary Seed: Voice to Indian Farmers
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How Indian Food Became Frustratingly Hip
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Beyond Momos: Imaginary Homelands and Tibetan Food in India
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Ripples and Tipples: How Partition Changed Indian Food
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Mid-Day Meal
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Where There Are No Butchers, There Are Cinnamon Buns
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The Dream of Two Kitchens
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Eating Capital
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The Juice of Mango Clichés
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The Scale Show
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Trailer - Bad Table Manners
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