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Flavor and health, expertly preserved - Ayurvedic Condiments - made and adapted locally.

Atina Foods adapts traditional Ayurvedic recipes to incorporate global and locally available produce for unusually delicious fermented and preserved condiments that help to balance your health and diet.

Our vision at ATINA FOODS is to produce and share holistic food based on traditional knowledge systems using local produce when available. We follow the sacred wisdom of the ancients, that food is medicine and medicine is food. Atina Foods began in 2015 by married team, Carrie Dashow and Suresh Pillai, in Catskill, New York. In a span of five years they have successfully developed and marketed their uniquely delicious products to both food connoisseurs and novices alike. Proudly making simple dishes complex and amazingly delicious with an added health boost, on plates throughout New York and beyond!

Our recipes are evolved from Suresh's traditional upbringing in Kerala, South India, ancestral home of Ayurvedic health practices and a place where one considers food as medicine eating for health is a practiced custom. Each condiment has a carefully considered beneficial combinations and handcrafted to balance 6 basic tastes classified in **Ayurveda as Sweet, Sour, Salty, Bitter, Pungent (hot) and Astringent (earthy / fermented**), to generate a unique complexity of taste that is as delicious as it is beneficial to your health! 

Ayurvedic Condiments -

Our line of condiments are designed to bring out the best taste in food, helping you to Eat The Food That's Good For You!  Using whole ingredients, spices, roots, fruits and herbs, nothing is pre-processed. Our condiments are broken up into two categories (plus a few anomalies); 1. Herbal Jams, translated from the traditional Ayurvedic word Leyham, a medicinal concoction of fruits, roots, spices and herbs preserved in Jaggery, an unrefined raw sugar cane from India. 2. Lacto-fermented probiotic rich Pickles or Ferments, made with only salt (no vinegar, no water) and special spice combinations. In Kerala, we call these, Upillitathy, meaning vegetables in salt. 

Our products range consists of all natural jarred foods, supplemented with snacks and other edibles. We host online fermentation and cooking workshops and in 2020 opened our seasonal HOMESTORE located in Catskill, NY open Saturday and Sunday 12-5pm throughout the fall. 

Stay in touch for our LIVE Seasonal Ferments! Only available in person, if you know one you may like (ie: you’ve gotten it from us before, or just want to take a chance!), you can add it on as a MYSTERY JAR with an email to tell us what you would like or leave it up to us!

Food in Ayurveda is meant to generate Agni Deepti (Fire of brilliance) to the Jataragni (Fire inside the stomach), this is the preliminary process of digestion before food is converted into nutrition and energy.  The practice of making food, is to bring out the potency of the materials used in the food to give the body and mind a nourishing experience through taste. It is important that food tastes great and is made up of healthy whole (not processed) ingredients, optimizing the nutritious and delicious benefits.

Our product range presently consists of shelf stable jarred foods, supplemented with snacks and other edibles. With an interest in sharing the basics of these healthful practices, we have begun cooking lessons and host regular local family style luncheons at our Outdoor Kitchen on our property when the season abides. See our calendar for updates

ATINA is the legendary Corn Goddess of the Mohicans, whose land we live on. Please visit this beautiful story about her.

Today you can find us at Local Markets, Pop up Dinners, hosting Workshops or come visit us at  ATINA HOMESTORE  in Catskill, where we have our jars, luncheons, workshops and events! Our retail locations are listed on our shop registry and we are here, online. 

Materials -

Our Ayurvedic condiments are made from whole, high quality, all natural ingredients, local when possible, otherwise from their country of origin. Local ingredients are generally organic (certified and un certified) with continuously evolving local recipes! We have good relationships with local farmers and a clear level of transparency. We have test gardens for recipe and small batch incubation. With an expanding list of farm friends, here are a few that we regularly work with; Honey Dog Farm, Samascott Orchards, Shaul Farms, The Kitchen Garden Farm. Our original recipes are crafted from Suresh's years of cooking, travel and eating. As a young boy, Suresh learned to cook from his mother and other family matriarchs in Kerala, South India. Honing his craft through travel and tasting as recipes of the Indian diaspora have migrated through the Middle East, South Americas and to our home in Upstate, New York. We have adapted ancient spice combinations with regional and global - fruit, roots and spices, to create our unique and delicious ATINA FOODS taste!

Eat the Food That’s Good for you with Atina Foods!


Who Are We


Carrie and Suresh are the team that runs Atina Foods and Emporium. They met in a cyclone and have been continuing the tradition ever since in their new found native homeland of Upstate, New York. From their small property speckled with gardens and birds while they watch the wall of Manitou, otherwise known as the start of the Catskill Mountain range, watched over by ATINA, Corn Goddess of the Mohicans.

With a background as a performance, media and visual artist, Carrie has taught arts and media to students of all ages and continues to produce performance and participatory artworks. You can see some of her projects on her website.

Check out this great opportunity for Carrie to talk about the intersection of Art and Food and life growing! on Speaking Broadly with Dana Cowen! Feb 2021

Suresh hails from Kerala, South India, homeland to the traditional practices of Ayurveda. As a consummate cultural practitioner, he has been engaged in numerous projects from building community museums to making films. He learned to cook traditional foods at a young age from the women in his household and has traveled extensively, picking up methods of making great tastes along the way.


Past Events with ATINA

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