cover of episode Holy Terroir: Finding Taste in an Edge-Place – Lily Kelting

Holy Terroir: Finding Taste in an Edge-Place – Lily Kelting

2024/3/19
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Emergence Magazine Podcast

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How do we taste a landscape? In this narrated essay, food and culture scholar Lily Kelting immerses us in the sounds of construction, the presence of buffalo, and the fragrance of marigold, smoke, and trash that flavor the outskirts of Pune, India. Opening our senses to the terroir of her local milk—a union between cow, community, and land—she wonders how it can help us understand the diverse and robust ecology of this edge-place.

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