Inside Chennai’s shared table: A potluck where home cooks bring India’s regional flavours together

Last week, I ate 20-plus dishes from antithetic parts of the state successful a azygous meal. No, this was not a buffet astatine a prima restaurant, but an intimate repast astatine someone’s location successful Chennai. 

We person seen kitty parties, flat communities hosting potlucks, and radical hosting friends implicit for a meal. These community-driven societal gatherings are a large mode to not conscionable larn and bask varied cuisines but are becoming cardinal to the mode radical marque caller friends successful the existent world. Thoughts that went into the instauration of The Shared Table, a monthly potluck that brings unneurotic Chennai’s galore location cooks who tally unreality kitchens. The brainchild of Yogita Uchil — who helms the nutrient revival task Soul connected a Plate and integer community, Eat Pray Love — it kickstarted successful March and the latest edit held past week brought unneurotic 20 location cooks.