Issue 04
Issue 04
Hyperlocal
Hyperlocal
With the fourth issue of dhoop, we wanted to explore food through the lens of places and places through the food that defines them. During this journey, the term hyperlocal presented itself through literature, pop culture, media, reels, and branding terminology — it was everywhere. Did we know what it exactly meant? No. Do we know what it means now? Not completely.
Well, in this case, defining is only part of the objective because defining it limits how we understand it, how we view the world, and how we imagine. What if we deconstruct the term and what it has come to mean, and remake it in our own way?
With the fourth issue of dhoop, we wanted to explore food through the lens of places and places through the food that defines them. During this journey, the term hyperlocal presented itself through literature, pop culture, media, reels, and branding terminology — it was everywhere. Did we know what it exactly meant? No. Do we know what it means now? Not completely.
Well, in this case, defining is only part of the objective because defining it limits how we understand it, how we view the world, and how we imagine. What if we deconstruct the term and what it has come to mean, and remake it in our own way?
Issue 03
Issue 04
Issue 04
Cooking
Hyperlocal
Hyperlocal
The cooking is seemingly ordinary. What made this issue particularly interesting was exploring how cooking interacts with the scope of dhoop’s bigger picture. We aren’t just talking about cooking in isolation, we are talking about how cooking interacts and engages with nature, culture, sustainability, and design.
With the fourth issue of dhoop, we wanted to explore food through the lens of places and places through the food that defines them. During this journey, the term hyperlocal presented itself through literature, pop culture, media, reels, and branding terminology — it was everywhere. Did we know what it exactly meant? No. Do we know what it means now? Not completely.
Well, in this case, defining is only part of the objective because defining it limits how we understand it, how we view the world, and how we imagine. What if we deconstruct the term and what it has come to mean, and remake it in our own way?
With the fourth issue of dhoop, we wanted to explore food through the lens of places and places through the food that defines them. During this journey, the term hyperlocal presented itself through literature, pop culture, media, reels, and branding terminology — it was everywhere. Did we know what it exactly meant? No. Do we know what it means now? Not completely.
Well, in this case, defining is only part of the objective because defining it limits how we understand it, how we view the world, and how we imagine. What if we deconstruct the term and what it has come to mean, and remake it in our own way?
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Issue 03
Issue 03
Issue 03
Cooking
Cooking
Cooking
Cooking
The cooking is seemingly ordinary. What made this issue particularly interesting was exploring how cooking interacts with the scope of dhoop’s bigger picture. We aren’t just talking about cooking in isolation, we are talking about how cooking interacts and engages with nature, culture, sustainability, and design.
The cooking is seemingly ordinary. What made this issue particularly interesting was exploring how cooking interacts with the scope of dhoop’s bigger picture. We aren’t just talking about cooking in isolation, we are talking about how cooking interacts and engages with nature, culture, sustainability, and design.
The cooking is seemingly ordinary. What made this issue particularly interesting was exploring how cooking interacts with the scope of dhoop’s bigger picture. We aren’t just talking about cooking in isolation, we are talking about how cooking interacts and engages with nature, culture, sustainability, and design.
The cooking is seemingly ordinary. What made this issue particularly interesting was exploring how cooking interacts with the scope of dhoop’s bigger picture. We aren’t just talking about cooking in isolation, we are talking about how cooking interacts and engages with nature, culture, sustainability, and design.
Issue 02
Issue 02
Issue 02
Commensality: The Act of Eating Together
Commensality: The Act of Eating Together
Commensality: The Act of Eating Together
Commensality: The Act of Eating Together
What does eating together mean to you? Is it sharing meals with family? Fighting with friends over that last bite? Or leaving the last bite as a gesture of love? Maybe togetherness is felt through that unopened bottle of nani’s pickle, a taste of home. Or is eating together divisive? A reason for exclusion, a source of division? Or is eating together an act? The one which stops you from licking the rajma off the plate outside home. Maybe eating with some people is more pleasurable than eating with others, maybe eating alone in the company of the characters on screen is all the company you need.
What does eating together mean to you? Is it sharing meals with family? Fighting with friends over that last bite? Or leaving the last bite as a gesture of love? Maybe togetherness is felt through that unopened bottle of nani’s pickle, a taste of home. Or is eating together divisive? A reason for exclusion, a source of division? Or is eating together an act? The one which stops you from licking the rajma off the plate outside home. Maybe eating with some people is more pleasurable than eating with others, maybe eating alone in the company of the characters on screen is all the company you need.
What does eating together mean to you? Is it sharing meals with family? Fighting with friends over that last bite? Or leaving the last bite as a gesture of love? Maybe togetherness is felt through that unopened bottle of nani’s pickle, a taste of home. Or is eating together divisive? A reason for exclusion, a source of division? Or is eating together an act? The one which stops you from licking the rajma off the plate outside home. Maybe eating with some people is more pleasurable than eating with others, maybe eating alone in the company of the characters on screen is all the company you need.
What does eating together mean to you? Is it sharing meals with family? Fighting with friends over that last bite? Or leaving the last bite as a gesture of love? Maybe togetherness is felt through that unopened bottle of nani’s pickle, a taste of home. Or is eating together divisive? A reason for exclusion, a source of division? Or is eating together an act? The one which stops you from licking the rajma off the plate outside home. Maybe eating with some people is more pleasurable than eating with others, maybe eating alone in the company of the characters on screen is all the company you need.
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dhoop uses food as a lens. Through this lens, we interrogate culture, sustainability, design, and the systems that sustain life. We started as a magazine focused on stories of food and its intersections.
Issue 04: Hyperlocal
Speaking of man-made, who decided what is local to a place? Can only native, indigenous things be local? If origin doesn’t make something truly hyperlocal, what does? Could it be the destination? Indigenisation? Re-territorialisation? Or, naturalisation? Is local something you are born with, or is it something you simply become?
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dhoop uses food as a lens. Through this lens, we interrogate culture, sustainability, design, and the systems that sustain life. We started as a magazine focused on stories of food and its intersections.
We work out of Jaipur, Bangalore & Mumbai
Issue 04: Hyperlocal
Speaking of man-made, who decided what is local to a place? Can only native, indigenous things be local? If origin doesn’t make something truly hyperlocal, what does? Could it be the destination? Indigenisation? Re-territorialisation? Or, naturalisation? Is local something you are born with, or is it something you simply become?
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dhoop uses food as a lens. Through this lens, we interrogate culture, sustainability, design, and the systems that sustain life. We started as a magazine focused on stories of food and its intersections.
Issue 04: Hyperlocal
Speaking of man-made, who decided what is local to a place? Can only native, indigenous things be local? If origin doesn’t make something truly hyperlocal, what does? Could it be the destination? Indigenisation? Re-territorialisation? Or, naturalisation? Is local something you are born with, or is it something you simply become?
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dhoop uses food as a lens. Through this lens, we interrogate culture, sustainability, design, and the systems that sustain life. We started as a magazine focused on stories of food and its intersections.
We work out of Jaipur, Bangalore & Mumbai
Issue 04: Hyperlocal
Speaking of man-made, who decided what is local to a place? Can only native, indigenous things be local? If origin doesn’t make something truly hyperlocal, what does? Could it be the destination? Indigenisation? Re-territorialisation? Or, naturalisation? Is local something you are born with, or is it something you simply become?