This is a judgement passed by the author to throw mud on Indian culture (“ How early vernacular cookbooks set the template for domesticity, caste purity” ). Gender inequality was everywhere in the world and is still prevailing. Also, as if, she is specially entitled, she is calling the old practices as backward. As such,this is a garbage thrown at general public in the name of history, with a narrow minded and deeply biases.

Does this authority not expect purity from the kitchen of a five-star hotel?.We conveniently forget the fundamentals, that quality and purity are often inter-changeable. If she is not expecting quality from star hotels where she dined, then what in those texts could be called purity of caste?

Olden day versions of today’s modern science is mostly absurd and outdate

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