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The rice that makes bread - Kala malliphulo rice
Pranav's ( Loafer &Co) beautiful bread took me back to how Kalamalli phulo rice, my favourite black rice, came to Bio Basics.
The beautiful, s...
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The eternal Palmyrah & the World Biodiversity Day
The eternal Palmyrah & the World Biodiversity Day. May 22, 2022
I look around our messy, untidy piece of land with a medley of trees - from t...
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Only One Earth - World Environment Day 2022
We were born to parents who left the villages to work and live in the city. They left their share of land to their farmer siblings or sold it. One...
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Kerala Matta red rice
If you ask anyone about Kerala red rice the top response would be Kerala Matta. People would go through our long list of Kerala rice varieties, ...
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Kunju kunju - A Kerala red rice with a story
Kunju kunju - is that even a name for rice? What does it mean?
When Illias, our Kuruva farmer, decided to put part of his land under a new K...
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The story of coconut oil through Olan
Olan - one of the favoured preparations in a Kerala sadya and loved with normal lunches.
The delicate Kerala Olan is seemingly an unlikely pa...
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Sweet, sweeter, sweetest
Sweeteners, the most loved of flavors, nature bestows upon us a variety of it- from crops, from trees, from bees. These carry sweetness with the...
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When moringa powder became a thing!
When moringa powder became a thing I was quite sceptical wondering why we need the dried powder or dried leaves when this tree grows everywhere ...
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Enjoying Red Rice in Summer
Lunch today is
Thondi Rice from Wayanad (organic red rice)
Kumbalanga-manga kootan (ash gourd and raw mango cooked in a coconut curry)
Avarakkai t...
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World Idli Day and idli history !
As part of celebrating World Idli Day 2022, here are some interesting facts that we came across, about the history of idli.
According to renowned f...
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Illupai Poo Sambha Rice
As part of our travels visiting seed saver farmers, we reached Ashokan Anna's home, by then I was coming down with fever. I was tired and could bar...
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Gobinda bhog Poha
It was a chilly February day four years back and I had travelled many miles from kalimpong, after a meeting, to Kolkata to Bankura to meet Bhair...
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