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Tales Of A City

To distill the essence of a city feels impossible. Through any lens, it is a glittering prism of subcultures that have made it home, of the stories woven through its timeline that become its soul. Heirloom Cities traverses a city from the lens of its culinary heritage. The exhilarating chaos of its vibrant markets. The scent and sizzle of street food, punctuating changing times of day. The mom-and-pop bakeries with decades-old loyalists. The experimental menus on enroute to a Michelin star. It is a time capsule of the infinite culinary identities of each city it explores, told through a series of photographs and essays by the very people that form it…

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MUMBAI
MUMBAI Sale price$60.00
KOLKATA
KOLKATA Sale price$80.00
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MUMBAI

Mumbai

The city’s layered culinary culture alone earns Mumbai its moniker of Maximum City. The cosy tradition of chai-nashta, where snacks like heart-shaped potato croquettes, patties or egg pakoras partner with comforting cups of masala chai. The wealth of seasonal seafood markets, bursting with bombay duck and pomfret in monsoon, or seer in wintertime. The fine-dining restaurants that level up Bombay classics in world-class kitchens. And then, there are the streets at Ramzan, the preserved Parsi recipes, the Udupi darshinis; communities as intertwined with Mumbai’s food culture as the iconic vada pao. Explore the textures of Mumbai’s ever-evolving food heritage here…

Kolkata

Kolkata Bengali

The colours of Kolkata’s culinary universe are breathing photographs. The fish markets glisten with silver and ice, the familiar piscine smell almost palpable through the page. The sharp sting of yellow mustards, the creamy orange of prawn curries, the mouth-watering pinks and greens of homemade sandesh; each a mere morsel of the myriad narratives the city holds. Kolkata’s culinary cartography maps its colonial and regional history, but also its distinctly multi-cultural present. Discover more…

That the book bagged the prestigious James Beard Media Award is no surprise: like the city itself, Mumbai pulls you in from the very first glance…

Vogue India

Following its 2025 debut edition on Mumbai, Heirloom Cities returns with a latest volume on Kolkata, a lavishly designed exploration of the city’s food culture and culinary history.

Condé Nast Traveller India

Rather than functioning in the limited boundaries of a cookbook or recipe book, Heirloom Cities Mumbai captures the movement, texture, and sensory overload of the city itself.

Outlook Traveller

[Mumbai] is a look back (and ahead) at the culinary traditions and influences of the seven islands… that evoke nostalgia, wonder; and also bring home a James Beard Media Award.

The Nod

Sri’s deeply personal, almost instinctive relationship with food sits at the heart of Heirloom Cities, Sri’s design-led publishing house, that documents the cultural ecosystems around food.

Platform

Kolkata lets you discover and rediscover the city in its glossy pages, that’s pleasantly complemented with pigmented photographs of the city and its nuanced life.

Telegraph