Tehzeeb: Culinary Traditions of Awadh

Authors

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  Adil Ahmad

  Adil Iqbal Ahmad completed his first, professionally commissioned design project when he was sixteen. His inherent sensibility had reached out to the pages of interiors literature when he was a young child of five years. And his journey in the pursuit of aesthetic stimulation continues.
  
  Design and all its myriad attributes, the many elements that come together when conceiving a larger idea, and then executing the complex ‘project’ to ensure a seamless cohesion, invokes the artist in him. His raison d’être is his unerring eye for symmetry and detail, as well as his unrelenting demand for perfection. And all this comes together to create his own unique, eclectic style.

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  Photographer: Anshika Varma

  Anshika Varma is a food and documentary photographer with over 20 years of experience across commercial and editorial platforms. Her work engages with visual storytelling in the culinary and hospitality industries as a photographer, stylist and creative director. Her images present food as a culmination of celebration and capture the layered relationships people share with it. Her work has appeared in award-winning books, magazines, digital campaigns and video series. In addition to her commercial practice, she is also an artist, curator and publisher. She is the founder of Offset Projects, an initiative that supports contemporary photography and the evolving language of the photobook through exhibitions, mentorships and collaborative publishing. She is based in Delhi, India.