Break Shift
Where stories from the world of food and hospitality come to rest, reflect, and reveal. It’s for anyone curious about what really goes on — in kitchens, dining rooms, back alleys, border towns, farms, boardrooms. Through essays, reporting, and quiet moments, writers explore the human side of an industry that feeds the world and rarely stops to talk about it.
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Nagpur’s Orange Gold: The Bitter, Sweet, and Tangled Story of the Nagpur Santra
When you think of Nagpur, you think of oranges. A basket full of them, golden and loose-skinned. They call it the Orange City of India, and in the winter, when the air chills and the harvest comes in, you can feel it. But the fruit you buy at a market is the last sentence of a long, complicated story. A story that starts not in a basket, but in the heat and dust of the Vidarbha soil.
Behind Every Great Dish: 7 Women Who Paved The Way for Food History
Reclaiming the flavours, voices and innovations lost to time.