Welcome. This is admittedly the blog of an amateur cook. Among the aims of this blog is to enable bold risks in vegetarian cooking and to share new ideas.
The title of this blog, Nava Paka Shastra (नवपाकशास्त्र "New Culinary Knowledge") is inspired from two Marathi manuscripts produced in colonial Thanjavur (Tanjore) in South India. During the rule of King Serfoji II ( 1777-1832) a number of cultural innovations were given shape in Tanjore, and the culinary arts were no exception. The two Marathi manuscripts that document the culinary experiments under his rule are entitled Sarabhendra Paka Shastra (शरभेन्द्रपाकशास्त्र , "Serfoji's Culinary Knowledge"), and contain traditional Maharashtrian, Tamil, and Western recipes together with some early examples of hybrid dishes and cooking techniques.
It is in the spirit of these early cosmopolitan culinary experiments that I share my urban, postcolonial, diasporic cooking with you.
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