Tag Archives: Indian women

No place at the table: Indian women, food, and eating

Indian women

For Nina*, dal (stewed lentils) tastes like defeat, preparing it feels like a lost cause. “Sometimes, there is ‘too much salt’, sometimes there is ‘no salt’, so much so that salting is very stressful for me,” she says, recounting the harsh words her cooking receives from her husband of 27 years.