Radhika Mathur knew her grandmother Bina Mathur and was able to spend time with her for over two decades before she passed away but the latter’s legacy lives on through a cookbook. It not only has traditional recipes but every kind that the matriarch wanted to experiment with over the years. Among them is one that even has a pre-Independence connection. She shares, “We have a culinary connection to the colonial times with Marmite. The whole family loves Marmite and my grandma made a soup with the last bits of Marmite in the jar.” A delicious dish that has become a favourite in the Mathur household over the years. 

It is one of the many recipes that have been maintained in the recipe book that her grandmother collected all her life but first started putting together in the early 1980s. She adds, “She loved cooking everything other than basic dal, sabzi and roti. She loved her baked vegetables, different sharbats and chaats.” Today, Radhika’s family still maintains the cookbook, but she has also scanned it to help continue the legacy and have access to it, anywhere she goes.