The Instagram page of The Locavore—an initiative started this year by Mumbai-based chef Thomas Zacharias to champion regional food through storytelling, recipes and events—is turning out to be a treasure trove of information on wild foods. Links to indigenous wisdom Wild foods, now under threat, are deemed critical to the world’s food security and nutritional needs. “Even though wild forest …
Gene Weingarten, The Washington Post columnist, who also calls himself “epistemologist, enthusiast of excreta-related humor ” on his Twitter profile has unleashed the wrath of none other than the otherwise soft-spoken gastronomy specialist and celebrity chef Padma Lakshmi. In his article, titled “You can’t make me eat these foods,” Gene had listed out foods he wouldn’t eat, such as hazelnuts, …