Reena Kukreja teaches ghiya wali chana daal, aka bottle gourd with split chickpeas, a Punjabi recipe often eaten in the summer months. Reena also talks about food memory and her trajectory in filmmaking.   Reena Kukreja is an Associate Professor at Queen’s University in the Department of Global Development Studies. Reena is a feminist-activist, researcher, […]

Rina Khan shares her grandmother’s interpretation of a South Indian sambar daal, alongside reflections on community and how food grows and changes with us.   Rina Khan (she/her) is an immigrant originally from Dhaka, Bangladesh and now a settler in the Treaty 6 territory now known as Edmonton, Alberta. She is a PhD student researching […]

In this episode, Shobhana Xavier teaches her take on Parrpu Curry, a Sri Lankan Tamil daal recipe. She also shares reflections about her family’s migration to Canada leaving Sri Lanka during the civil war and her return many years later.   Shobhana Xavier is Tamil-Canadian. Born in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, she grew up in Scarborough, […]

In this episode, Natasha Bissonauth shares her interpretation of a Mauritian daal, as she talks about food memory, growing food, and teaches the merits of cooking “slow and low.”   Natasha Bissonauth (she/they) is from Montreal Tiohtià:ke and is an art history professor at Emily Carr University. Her research centers queer of color critique and […]

In this first episode, Sailaja Krishnamurthi interviews Sayyida about what prompted The Daal Project. Why daal? Why now?   Sailaja Krishnamurti is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Gender Studies at Queen’s University. Her work takes a critical race feminist approach to religion and representation in the South Asian diaspora and in transnational […]