9.17 Your Next Meal Could Be A Time Machine ft. Lavanya Lakshminarayan

About this episode

Tara interviews Lavanya Lakshminarayan about her sci-fi series where food embodies culture and conflict.

If you’ve ever wished for food to transport you to new places, this episode is for you! In this episode, Tara sits down with Lavanya Lakshminarayan, international award-winning sci-fi author and game designer, to explore the world of Primus in Intergalactic Feast, a sequel to her Interstellar Megachef. They dig into her two-book series, where food is not just sustenance, but culture, conflict, memory and resistance all at once. Lavanya talks about how it all started with a bowl of rasam made ...

People in this episode

Host: Tara

Guest: Lavanya Lakshminarayan

Topics covered

• food
• sci-fi
• culture
• memory
• resistance

Keywords

• sci-fi
• food
• culture
• memory
• resistance
• Intergalactic Feast
• Interstellar Megachef

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Intergalactic Feast, Interstellar Megachef

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