Chenna Poda literally translates to burnt cheese. That's precisely what this delightful sweet is -- caramelised, subtly sweet ...

Balasore: With religious chants echoing through temple walls and the air thick with the scent of incense and tradition, a ...

These crunchy, sugar-coated puri-like sweets are a significant part of the mahaprasad offered at the Jagannath temple in ...

Badi chura is basically a coarsely crushed mixture of wadi, onion, salt, mustard oil etc. This authentic dish holds a permanent spot in Odia cuisine. Odisha Day, also known as Utkal Divas or Utakala ...

Odia New Year, also known as Maha Vishuba Sankranti, is a grand celebration that marks the beginning of the new agricultural year in Odisha. It falls on April 14th and is an important festival for ...

It was only when she moved to Bengaluru from Bhubhaneshwar in 2007, in search of a job, that a real interest in cooking, especially Odia cuisine, sprouted. Saipriya’s initial attempts spun ...

One such regional cuisine, which still has immense scope of research, is of Odisha. This state from Eastern India has a culinary tradition, which has a history of its own. Compared to other regional ...

He has been showcasing and promoting Odia cuisine, which he says is built on a zero-waste, preservative-free system of cooking. “We believe in nose-to-tail eating. Even if you take something ...

The mother cuisine At a webinar on Odia food organised by the Odisha Tourism Development Corporation, a prominent writer on the region’s food used all these tools of cultural hegemony.