SWAAD (Bharat Ka) is a special traditional recipe book from TBOF for many reasons:
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It is the first Recipe book from TBOF in print form
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The recipe book contains 14 authentic Indian recipes using Ghee.
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This recipe book contains many months of hard work from a team of artists, including photographers, designers, writers, illustrators, home cooks, and professional chefs, who worked together to create an exquisite collection of regional Ghee dishes from across the country!
The Story of SWAAD That Will Remain Close to Our Heart
SWAAD (Bharat Ka) - Recipe Book helped us raise INR 300,000 in donations towards Give India’s campaign to fight hunger during the second wave of COVID-19. To everyone who donated INR 2000/- and above to Give India’s hunger campaign, we gifted them a printed copy of SWAAD.
The funds raised were used by Give India to feed the hungry and homeless - each meal was a nutritional platter comprising healthy staples like rice, dal, vegetables, chapati, and more, along with rations kits containing dal, rice, salt, oil, atta, masala, tea, sugar, etc. For everyone who donated generously, we wanted to send them a piece of our heart, and this gesture was our love in action…! :)
Today, as we type this out to the world, we realize that for everyone who donated, helped heal those who were suffering, bringing them food when there was no hope; for all those who stepped forward, donated, and showed up, SWAAD was always meant to be our ode, something that we did not know ourselves.
These are honest food stories wrapped in blessings and love from our home to yours.
What’s Inside the SWAAD Book?
Well, a world of artistic wonder and beauty!
We present honest food art and styling, mesmerizing photography, well-researched and structured recipes using Ghee from across the country, family recipes and candid food notes in the words of the cooks who narrated them to us, some soulful writing, stunning hand-drawn illustrations, matte textured paper that we crave in our digital world of onscreen reading ….!
SWAAD is a slim volume of 14 traditional Indian recipes that celebrate Ghee in true regional style from across the country! All recipes are vegetarian with their hero as Ghee - we think Ghee is indispensable to these recipes and will be difficult to replace it with some other oil or plant based fat.
This book also contains guest contributions from Celebrity Chefs Thomas Zacharias and Rakesh Raghunathan, as well as experienced home cooks; we remain ever grateful to them for contributing their recipes.
