Send us recipes
We’re always on the lookout for lesser-known millet recipes, especially those with a rich and compelling backstory. In a country with as diverse a culinary heritage as India, we rely on our millet-loving community to help us collate recipes that truly represent this variety. The more unique and uncommon the millet recipe, the more thrilled we are to receive it! We encourage you to share your millet recipes in the form of text, audio, photos, or videos.
The Millet Revival Project is specifically interested in millet recipes that:
- Celebrate local and seasonal millet varieties, putting them in the culinary spotlight.
- Offer insights into the millet-based culinary traditions of a particular community or culture, especially those that are often overlooked.
- Feature millet preparations that are rare and deserving of a wider audience.To contribute your millet recipe, please send it to [email protected] with the subject line ‘Millet Recipe Contribution’.
Write for us
The Editorial Lab is focused on drawing out important stories from within the millet landscape, bringing to the fore people, cultures, and practices that deserve to be read and appreciated.
Thematically, we would like to explore anything that hasn’t been excessively covered, or offer our community a new way to look at millets. In terms of voice and tone, we are drawn to narratives that are rooted in a slightly fluid way of storytelling, as opposed to a strictly objective style. We like stories in which the presence of the storyteller can be felt. Descriptions, impressions, and interesting anecdotes from along the way are all welcome. We publish stories told through text, photographs, videos and illustrations—depending on what format and medium works best.
To give you an idea of the kind of stories we want to publish, here are some of our Millet Revival Project features:
As Millets Steal the Spotlight, What Do Its Growers Have to Say about It?
Numerous efforts are being made across the country to revive millets, and promote its consumption. But what does it mean for farmers who grow these grains? Nidaphi Hynniewta speaks to millet farmers from Meghalaya.
Songs of Survival: The Cultural Memory that Kept Millets Alive
Certain food memories linger in a community’s collective consciousness long after the food itself may have disappeared from people’s plates and farmers’ fields. Sohel Sarkar writes on the farming songs and rituals that have sustained millets in different parts of India.
‘Keerai pori is something I enjoy during the monsoon’
What does it mean to be in tune with changing seasons? Janagiamma, a leader of the indigeneous Kurumba community in the Nilgiris, tells us that it’s good to eat millets and bamboo during the monsoons.
A New Appetite for the Old Grain
As millets enter the culinary imaginations of urban dwellers, Sharanya Deepak talks about how we must centre the land on which it grows, and the people who have preserved it.
Here is what we are not interested in publishing:
Restaurant reviews
Profiles of professional chefs
Generic stories without a clear point of view
If you have a story that fits, please write to us at [email protected], with the subject line ‘MRP Pitch’, with your name, a short bio, samples of your writing, and a short paragraph outlining your story idea.
Collaborate with us
Restaurants, hotels, and other F&B outlets hold a lot of power when it comes to shaping people’s perceptions and choices.
In the case of millets, we see so much potential if consumers are able to taste these in an atmosphere that inspires curiosity and adventure.
We’re looking to collaborate with dynamic restaurants and chefs who are interested in bringing millets into their kitchens, and will enjoy the creative challenge of cooking with them.
Write to us at [email protected], with the subject line ‘MRP Collaboration’, with a few lines about how you see us working together.
Join our Resource Bank
If you are a restaurant, cafe or F&B outlet in India that already incorporates millets on your menu, we’d love to add you to our repository. And if you know someone who fits the bill, send them our way!
Fill out the Millet Resource Bank form here.
Join our Research team
Are you an organisation, NGO, or think tank working at the intersection of agriculture, policy, gender, climate, and millets? We want to hear about your work! Get in touch to be a part of our surveys, panel discussions, events, and interviews.
Write to us at [email protected], with the subject line ‘MRP Research’, and a few lines about what you do and how we can work together.
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