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Video, 5 mins

Tarana Husain Khan talks about the recipe books at Rampur’s Raza Library

Rampur-based writer and historian Tarana Husain Khan talks about her research on historic recipe books in Persian and Urdu preserved in Rampur’s famed Raza Library. She explains how, having translated some of these handwritten recipe books, she worked to revive the historic dishes in collaboration with Rampur’s chefs as part of the project 'Forgotten Food: Culinary Memory, Local Heritage and Lost Agricultural Varieties in India'.

Also see: Tarana Husain Khan, Narrating Rampur’s Cuisine: Cookbooks, Forgotten Foods, and Culinary Memories in special Issue on 'Forgotten Food Histories of South Asia', ed. Jayeeta Sharma and Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, Global Food History 9:2 (Summer 2023), https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfgf20/9/2

Credits

Director: Yousuf Saeed

Camera: Danish Mirza

Editing: Yousuf Saeed

Research and coordination in Rampur: Tarana Husain Khan

 

The Research

This video is produced as part of the project: Forgotten Food: Culinary Memory, Local Heritage and Lost Agricultural Varieties in India, 2019-23

Led by Professor Siobhan Lambert-Hurley (University of Sheffield)

in collaboration with

Dr Saumya Gupta (Janki Devi Memorial College, University of Delhi)

Professor Duncan Cameron (University of Manchester)

Professor Claire Chambers (University of York)

The project was funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund through the Arts & Humanities Research Council in the United Kingdom.

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