I’m a Bengali, which in no way defines who I am, but there are certain traits -whether cultural or genetic that have latched themselves onto me like sucker fish. Food is the solution to every problem whether it be health, psychological or emotional. Food is what gets people together or breaks ties depending on the [...]
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Teaching Transgenic Food
This past semester I taught Art & Science at the Pacific Northwest College of Art’s Intermedia department. I created a small in-class assignment to introduce the idea of creatively engaging the history of Genetically Engineered food. Students were asked to examine the USDA’s database of Field Test of GM Crops / Petition for Deregulation and [...]
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Bangalore DNA coverage of Brinjaal 4-Way
((The DNA Newspaper doesn’t easily allow links to its articles so I have republished it here)) Students let brinjal dishes do the talking They spoke of the crop’s diversity instead of posturing on bt debate Malavika Velayanikal. Bangalore How often is the brinjal celebrated? Probably, a few times since the bt brinjal started threatening to [...]
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Brinjal 4-Way
Brinjal 4-Way was a research project and cooking contest created in collaboration with students from the Srishti School of Art, Design & Technology and held at Jaaga in Bangalore, India. For a video of the students’ research please go here (& see below) and to see coverage in India’s DNA newspaper you can go here. [...]
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