Rasoi - What does a recipe remember?

RASOI is a new Manasamitra project exploring the stories, memories, music and heritage held within South Asian food. Working with communities across Kirklees, Calderdale and Wakefield, we are collecting recipes and the stories that sit behind them – the people who make them, the places they remind us of, and the memories stirred up by cooking South Asian inspired food, delving into ingredients, smells and tastes.

Through 21 creative workshops, recipes will be the starting point for conversations, poetry, music, storytelling and sound. Dates of workshops will be announced soon, but if you would like to get involved, we would love to hear from you.

A selection of the stories and recipes gathered in the coming months, will be brought together in a new creative recipe book and digital archive, celebrating South Asian food heritage as something living, evolving and shared between generations. All recipes included in the collection will be vegetarian and we can’t wait to read them, our taste buds are already tingling!