Gastronomica

Episode 13 Aired: Sunday, July 17th 2022

Indira Arumugam on the Pleasures of Preserves

Sharing and eating food together is a common way to build connection, but how does one maintain family ties when separated by hundreds of miles? In this episode, Singapore-based anthropologist Indira Arumugam chronicles her family’s migration through a story of salt, sun, and time. In conversation with Gastronomica Editorial Collective member Krishnendu Ray, Indira shares the techniques of sun-drying goat meat and fish from her family’s village in Tamil Nadu and weighs in on culinary labor, love, and hospitality in rural-urban connections.

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