If culture is a language, then food is India’s most eloquent dialect. Indian lifestyle revolves around the kitchen. However, the "culture stories" of Indian food are not found in restaurant menus, but in the Dabbas (lunchboxes) carried by office workers and the heirloom recipes passed down through generations.

Lifestyle in rural India is dictated by the harvest. From the cooling

in the winter, every meal is a story of the land’s geography. The Social Fabric: Family and Festivity