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The Migration Menu is an exciting new podcast series that explores journeys from South Asia to West London, through food.

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Joined March 2024
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Empire, cultural appropriation, chai on your breakfast cereal and the best places to eat in #London. Join @LAHeslop, James Staples, and @Sathnam for The Migration Menu Live, here: themigrationmenu.com/episode…
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📢ALERT 📢 Join our live recording from Moorgate, where James Staples and I joined Rui Su for the launch of her exhibition, The Gaze, last month. We joined a panel to discuss the often unseen hurdles faced by migrant traders in London. themigrationmenu.com/episode… @LAHeslop
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Series 2 finale is here. WE can hardly believe it is over. Worth a listen if not just for the acapella intro... themigrationmenu.com/episode… Enjoy! pls R/T
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We talk about food, family, and what it means to belong to such a small diaspora; we explore the gender politics of supper clubs, Indian Ocean trading histories, and the deep #SriLankan influences that shape Maldivian cooking today. themigrationmenu.com @laheslop
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Measure with the Heart - themigrationmenu.com/episode… Ever wondered what the food of one of the world’s smallest South Asian diasporas tastes like? #Maldives #indianocean
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In this week's episode Prof. James Staples takes on fellow podcaster @RoryStewartUK themigrationmenu.com/episode…
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Join us at the @lbvihara to talk food, merit, and making home all over the world. themigrationmenu.com/episode…
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Thank you for hosting us, feeding us, and for all of your insights. We hope you enjoy the episode!
CULTIVATING COMPASSION: The Migration Menu podcast features London Buddhist Vihara, the iconic Sri Lankan temple in Chiswick. The offering of food as Dhana, is a daily act of devotion, which serves to cultivate generosity & compassion.🇱🇰🇬🇧☸️@migration_menu open.spotify.com/episode/17L…
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It was our pleasure to have you on the show and to hear about the valuable work you are doing across communities in London!
Was a pleasure to explore the link between food, migration & diverse communities with @migration_menu. We reflected on the role food plays in keeping people connected to their heritage, the way it brings people together & helps us learn about each other themigrationmenu.com/episode…
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EPISODE 2 has landed!!! themigrationmenu.com (or wherever you get yours...)
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Series Two has landed. We begin with the Brilliant @dipnaanand professional chef author and lover of KFC. open.spotify.com/episode/7MJ…
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Brilliant evening celebrating #SouthAsianHeritageMonth at @Pitzhanger - bringing South Asia’s rich identity to life through dance, art and food. Grateful for a warm discussion with @migration_menu & Sohini Banerjee about food and identity and how it brings communities together.
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Who says public Anthropology can’t sell? Our live podcast recording with Sathnam Sanghera at Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery on Thursday 7 August 2025 has officially SOLD OUT!! The great news is that James Staples and I have released 60 extra tickets - bag yours before they're gone!
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Available wherever you get your podcasts, shortly. lnkd.in/gTRjJ3SChashtag#TheM… hashtag#FoodAndEmpire hashtag @PitzhangerManor hashtag#SouthAsianHeritageMonth hashtag#WestLondonEvents
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Join us to discuss culinary cultural transformations, colonial/post-colonial gustatory politics and the making of West London. This is an exciting live recording, but also a chance to celebrate and publicise series 2 of The Migration Menu TMM!
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My take on a new translation of a book on Dalit cooking from Marathwada, India It will be in three parts. This is the first one. Thanks to Prof. Vandana Swamy and Prof. Ishita Dey in helping me navigate the related literature foodanthro.com/2024/08/26/re…
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A one woman army! Our latest podcast drops today, so listen in and join our lunch with the London Food Company — link in bio! @LAHeslop @UKSAsia_Network @BrunelPolicy #migration #food
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Hungry for more? The next episodfe of The Migration Menu will be dropping🫳 tomorrow! And this week we are eating Sri Lankan🇱🇰, at Yako‼️
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Shahu Patole’s Dalit (mostly Mahar and Mang) cooking from Marathwada has set me thinking. There are at least 22,000 cuisines in India — that is the # of dialects reported in the census — which is linked to landscape. That gives us a sketch of the sociogeography of Indian food…
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Here it is... Episode 7 of The Migration Menu!! And finally we are eating #SriLankan food themigrationmenu.com/episode…
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