A Microwave choco lava mug cake inspired by a mid-20th century print advertisement for Cadbury chocolates. Meticulous instructions on baking a coconut cake — a delightful take on our very own ukadiche modaks — in response to a centuries old iron coconut grater. A step-by-step breakdown on poaching pears in red wine, influenced by a Mughal painting of a woman with a wine cup. These are some of the 22 recipes of nostalgia, longing, comfort, and survival that team members of Bengaluru-based Museum of Art & Photography (MAP) have curated as part of their online exhibition Stories on a Banana Leaf, which displays a range of 17 food-related paintings, photographs, sculptures, prints, advertisement posters and textiles from their collection.

Chetra, Barahmasa-I series, Madan Meena, 2020, silkscreen and natural pigments on paper. Pics Courtesy/Museum of Art & Photography (MAP), Bengaluru