Although she had always been passionate about food, 28-year-old entrepreneur Vinda Dravid didn't realise how truly novel her mother's salads and sabzis were till her former office colleagues started raving about it. "For me, it was just ghar ka khana — delicious, but regular fare. Every day, my then colleagues would fuss over my tiffin and ask for recipes," recollects the Sion resident.

So, sometime around November last year, a few months before she got married, the former blogger decided to sketch the food she had grown up eating as a personal project. "I realised that if I don't know the recipes or document them, these dishes won't be made in the future. Their back stories, like why certain ingredients are used in a specific way or time, would also be lost," shares Dravid. After over two-and-a-half months of shadowing her mother in the kitchen and rediscovering their family traditions, she was ready with the one-of-a-kind illustrated e-cookbook, 8 Regional Indian Vegetarian & Vegan Recipes & Stories.