MUMBAI -- The first time I encountered Dalit food was a recipe for blood fry, a goat-blood dish often prepared by Dalit communities across India in the absence of meat.
Marginalized Dalit culinary wisdom has been hidden for centuries

Gunaabaai, the mother of "Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada" author Shahu Patole, prepares food at her home in Osmanabad, India. (Photo by Bhushan Korgaonkar)
MUMBAI -- The first time I encountered Dalit food was a recipe for blood fry, a goat-blood dish often prepared by Dalit communities across India in the absence of meat.