Currently residing in Cochin, Annie started uploading videos regularly on Youtube from 2015 bolstered by the encouraging comments of the viewers. Annie says that with each new video she makes, she feels the same kind of excitement and happiness she did when she started.
The masala is an accurately measured and carefully fashioned mixture of 25, or sometimes even 60, ingredients, each of which are sun-dried, roasted and pounded.
Turn the pages of history, and it will narrate the plight of the Halpatis of Gujarat, one of the most backward tribal communities. For the longest time, they have struggled to break away from a shell that dictates everything they are –landless farmhands under exploitative zamindars.
Long supply chains and grocery stores selling loose ingredients make it impossible to track where the food comes from or what sub-standard material is mixed in it. However, there is help at hand.