Kate Ray recently interviewed Suresh for her newsletter, soft leaves, as part of a series called The Secret Ingredient. In these interviews, she speaks with chefs and food practitioners about an ingredient that they love to use or that means some special to them. Suresh chose rhubarb, which was the first plant he and Carrie encountered on Atina’s land. He speaks about finding local ingredients to take the place of foods he grew up with, and how he rediscovers himself as a new person each day he cooks.
Read moreGARLIC CAPITAL
It was a wonderful experience for us to be a vendor in last week’s Hudson Valley Garlic Festival 2021, We were thrilled to show off our new products AND introduce the Garlic Collective, please read more here.
Read moreDoorstep Q&A Ayurveda with Suresh!
Tell us the story of Atina Foods. From an Interview with Doorstep. Summer 2021. Answers from Suresh.
Read moreInji Puli in Maritime navigations
In honor of the availability of our products along the Hudson River via SHIP FREIGHT in the belly of the SCHOONER APOLLONIA, we wanted to highlight the important relationship between preserving food, medicine and intercontinental trade!
One of the attractive features of the trade that believed to have existed between imperial Roman cities and India in ancient period was the exchange of preserved foods. As the long sea journey between Mediterranean and Indian Ocean took many months, sometime years, it created a demand for foods that can remain stable for long time and also accentuate the taste and potency through aging of ingredients..
Read morePassing the LASOON test
Lasoon, Atina’s Garlic nut crumble, continues to build its followers slowly and steadily ever since we introduce it as a cooking medium. Heat up your roasting pan, add a half a teaspoon of cooking oil and two tablespoons of Lasoon, saute the mixture in low fire till you get the combined smell of Garlic, coconut, sesame and peanuts. To this, add a pound of your favorite vegetable, meat, fish or cheese, cut in small sizes and cook in low fire as you like
Read moreGARLIC, a NUTRITIONAL SUPER STAR
GARLIC may be small, but its benefits are mighty. GARLIC is packed with vitamins B and C, manganese, selenium, iron, copper and potassium. In fact, this little vegetable gives you a lot more than just bad breath. It also gives you allicin, an oily chemical compound found in garlic that packs a super food punch.
Read moreGARLIC SCAPE PICKLE
The Story of Garlic Scape
The first time I saw a Garlic garden in my American life was in Catskill, July 2014, a few weeks after my arrival from India. It was the hard neck variety of garlic, bulbs shoot their stems into long tender beans like curly-ish bodies holding flowers and seeds, a magical beauty. It was called Garlic Scape, Carrie introduced it to me, for which I ate quite a number and fell in love with that amazingly pungent soft flesh.
Read moreSo many wonderful helpers!
We are happy that our list of helpers is growing, with so many wonderful people through our out door doors and kitchen ways, we hope for the fruitfulness of this exchange, and may it grow into sustainability and food for all, as stewards of this land.
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