DAADEE MAA KITCHEN

Traditional ‘Daadee Maa’ cuisine is one of the oldest still cooked cuisines in the world. People have been cooking what we recognise as ‘Daadee Maa’ food for around 5,000 years, since they inhabited the Indus Valley, one of the world’s oldest civilisations. From a very early stage, our cuisine was predicated on the belief that food was medicine - that what you ate contributed to your physical and mental wellbeing and helped you maintain your balance with your environment. From the Indus civilisation onwards, people ate a diverse range of health giving foods like ginger, turmeric, pepper, beans, lentils, vegetables and whole grains. The world’s first consciously vegetarian cultures also developed in India, a notion that spread to other early societies like the Greeks and is still widely practised in India (around 40 per cent of the ‘Daadee Maa’ population is vegetarian).