Till 18 months ago, when Aadubaal, a London-based chartered accountant who uses only one name, and his distant relative Bhushan Panse, a Pune-based lawyer, started work on a passion project: updating the book’s language and situating it within its socio-historical context to make it more accessible to the modern reader. But like many classics, its relevance faded with time. The first cookbook to be published in Marathi in 1875, Ramchandra Sakharam Gupte’s Soopashastra, which translates to “science of cooking”, is a treasure trove of recipes and food-related hacks. Sounds a little bizarre, right? But that’s exactly what Soopashastra prescribes. Or preparing shrikhand by wrapping curd in a cloth ball and sticking it to a mud wall. Imagine making the sweet flatbread puran poli with a list of requirements that includes mud, ash and salt.
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