Usually we have to travel long distances in search of roots but sometimes almost miraculously roots come and find us. That is what happened to us at the Forest Foods and Ecology Festival in New Delhi.
Suddenly, on one fine Friday morning, I found myself
surrounded by roots and roots…
“Hey Jagannath, do you remember the bearded farmer we had gone
to meet in the forest? Has he come?”
“Ahahah yes, they both have come,” laughs Jagannath. “This
one and that one.”
“They were two?? I never realized! They all look so
similar!!”
Our ancestors’ and up to today’s Adivasis’ staple food… intriguing roots... so many of them… in all shapes and sizes…
And this one is the one that fascinates me most… to prepare
it is a long process… It has to be boiled and cut in 4 pieces. Then it is put
in a basket that is kept overnight in the river. Once again it has to be boiled,
and then only after being peeled, it can be prepared as any other vegetable…
Here, I can’t help but make a connection with the words of
Anodea Judith in her chapter on Muladhara or Root Chakra...
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