Edible Memories

Edible Memories: Food, Place, and Belonging in the Hills is a sensory workshop led by Afshan Mariam and Sky Islands exploring food as a living archive of memory and migration. Through tasting, storytelling, and land art, participants reflect on how food connects us to place, culture, and ecology.

Do you remember the first time you savoured honey from the hills, or nibbled at a wild flower, that first potent cup of tea in Ooty? The flavors of fruit eaten fresh off the tree? Food carries the scent of seasons, the rhythm of a millstone, the texture of soil, and the stories of those who prepared it.

Join us for a sensory workshop that explores how food connects us to place through taste, memory, and art. Inspired by stories from Sky Islands, we’ll taste, reflect, write, and create - honouring the ways the hills nourish us in terms of culture, body, and sense of belonging. 

And, we will also go for a walk!

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Afshan Mariam, consultant - Sky Islands, began by scribbling in tiny notebooks about plants and insects she met in the fields and forests of the Nilgiris. She has built curricula and led workshops at places ranging from the Serendipity Arts Festival in Goa to the Chennai Photo Biennale, and contributed to on-ground collectives such as Edible Issues, The Kichdi Collective, and the Centre for Reciprocity.

Sky Islands is a platform for and from the Western Ghats.