Name: What foods did your ancestors love?
Uploaded: 2020-06-30T20:03:01Z
Duration: 14 min 30 s
Description: Around the world, Indigenous food cultures vanish because of industrialized agriculture and a shifting, Western-influenced concept of the ideal diet. Food researcher Aparna Pallavi explores why once-essential culinary traditions disappear from people's lives and memories almost without notice -- and serves up a subtle solution to revitalize our connection to the foods we eat.

Around the world, Indigenous food cultures vanish because of industrialized agriculture and a shifting, Western-influenced concept of the ideal diet. Food researcher Aparna Pallavi explores why once-essential culinary traditions disappear from people's lives and memories almost without notice -- and serves up a subtle solution to revitalize our connection to the foods we eat.

Aparna Pallavi: What foods did your ancestors love?

What foods did your ancestors love?

Confronting food shame is key in reclaiming indigenous diets, rich in history and nutritional value, lost to modern preferences.

Mahua, a nutritious staple in indigenous diets, now marginalized as mere liquor raw material, symbolizes lost food traditions.

Reviving ancestral foods, embracing love over shame, can reconnect us with Earth, enhancing health and cultural heritage.