Imagine making the sweet flatbread puran poli with a list of requirements that includes mud, ash and salt. The first cookbook to be published in Marathi in 1875, Ramchandra Sakharam Gupte’s Soopashastra, which translates to “science of cooking”, is a treasure trove of recipes and food-related hacks. Till 18 months ago, when Aadubaal, a London-based chartered accountant who uses only …
