The USDA Food Guide Pyramid — A Guide to Daily Food Choices, showing recommended daily servings across food groups — Courtesy: Wikimedia Commons

A black-and-white photograph of three children at a roadside; the youngest stands in the foreground. — Courtesy: Aryan Raj Srivastava

A bronze sculpture of many slender figures joining hands in a ring around a well. — Courtesy: K.S. Radhakrishnan

Recipes

We hope to develop this section with blogs from all over India and the world on personal experiences — which don’t always have to be pleasant! — of food preparation. We invite readers to participate in this exercise so our perceptions of hunger and its relation to food grow keener.

Below, half a dozen wonderful blogs from India:

01What exactly did they eat in Ancient IndiaBy Vir Sanghvi
02A History of Mughal Cuisine through Cookbooks
03Forgotten Flavours: Lost Recipes of Madhya Pradesh That Deserve a ComebackNeerja Bhatnagar
04Across India, a Food Yatra
05Ultimate Guide to Indian Festival Foods (55+ Recipes!)Archana
06What do the poorest eat?Salt, water, and pepper