I am co-convenor of a panel. organisers aren’t responded to my emails requesting visa invitation letter + other information needed to complete the application. I have paid the registration fee & have the visa appointment on 20th July in Delhi. There are no other available slots till oct after this.

Amanda Herbert & @nehavermani.bsky.social explore global culinary translation, examining how European colonisers controlled spice routes & clashed with local practices of bodily autonomy. Using European and South Asian records they explore the use of spices & differing views of authenticity.

Considering such details with a focus on breeding lean yet powerful falcons are repeated in all the manuals, the second painting almost seems satirical for the man examining the falcon’s crop to ascertain its health, is himself quite stout and outsized.

The latter meant a diet mixed with sugar and or salt, croton seeds (jamalghota), poppy seeds, cinnamon, barley grain-sized musk pellets, asafetida (hing) resin, yellow myrobalan (amala), and cloves mixed with human milk.

This health checkup not only allowed the falconer to fix the next feeding schedule but also figure if purgatives were to be administered.

Falconers keep an eye on the weight of the birds by placing their fingers on its crop, a part of the gut system, located right under the throat. It was done to check the amount of food and water stored in said organ, as excess could disrupt digestion and produce lethargy.

Plugging in my open access article of food and smell at Mughal court here

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I miss going to trade fair. Brings back memories from my childhood!

This exchange is also interesting because we almost never hear about the use of paan/betel in non South or Southeast Asian contexts.