KHAMGAON, India – Pork rinds. Dried squirrel. Spicy fish eggs. Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada is part anthology, part cookbook and part rebuke to readers, who may presume Indian food is largely ...

We could make choices that, as Shahu Patole indicates in his book, Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada, were not available to people like him at the bottom of Hindu society. Patole’s book deals ...

His work in Marathi was recently translated by Bhushan Korgaonkar as ‘Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada’. Published by HarperCollins Publishers India, it delves into the nuances of Dalit food ...

Jaipur: Shahu Patole, author of Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada talks about how in her village “seven castes till the same earth, sowing the same grains and vegetables beneath shared skies and ...

This is precisely the inquiry at the heart of Shahu Patole’s 2015 work, Anna He Apoona Brahma, brought into English as Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada by Bhushan Korgaonkar in 2024. Graciously ...

Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada; Shahu Patole, translated by Bhushan Korgaonkar, HarperCollins, ₹499. The reviewer is a freelance journalist based in Chennai.