Writing & Research | Tansha Vohra

Don't Yuck My Yum: Jellied Eels

A pilot episode for a podcast on food and disgust that seeks to ask if we're all buying into more than just our taste buds As part of an...

The Boochi Cookout

On a bright Saturday afternoon in November, I invited a few people who have been a part of my journey through Serendipity Art...

Crafting Sustainable Cities with Permaculture

Understanding the role of permaculture design in urban living "Indian cities are monumental archives of decades upon decades of bad...

Women, Evolution and Insects as Food

I spoke to the world's only entomophagy anthropologist, Julie Lesnik, about her book "Edible Insects and Human Evolution" and in...

Could This Insect That Feeds On Decomposing Food Waste Be The Future Of Food?

The Black Solider Fly has fascinated me for some time now. My initial attraction to the fly was because the larvae would decompose my...

Could Bug-Based Pet Food Help Curb Climate Change?

I spent the week intermittently researching the subject from a global perspective, and this journal reflects some of what I found, with...

Failure as Flavor

I set out to ferment weaver ants using koji and a rice cooker for the very first time in my life - and of course, I failed. But what...

How to Harvest Weaver Ants

Field Notes of a (Very) Amateur Urban Forager The first time I harvested a weaver ant nest I had ants in my pants. Literally. Let me...

The Monyul Gathering

Curation • Research • Documentation • Fundraising For four months, I worked at a nano tourism project in Arunachal Pradesh that aimed to...

Hungry for Insects

What did our ancestors eat? How did they augment their nutrition? What were their secrets? These are some of the questions I was thinking...

Why aren't we just eating locusts?

During the lockdown in India, there were reports of massive swarms of Locusts destroying crops in the northwest of the country and...

A Place for Indian Oysters

To say that oysters are a culinary celebration is nothing short of an understatement. These bivalved mollusks are an ingredient revered...