PODI life - South Indian Pantry

We’ve spent the past year falling down what can only be described as a salt rabbit hole. 🧂
It began in an unexpected place—a small salt museum in southwest France—and eventually led us into linguistics, Roman history, geology, anthropology, and food science. We’re so glad you could join us! 🥹

This is your sign to buy the best tomatoes you can find, add a pinch of finishing salt, and call it dinner. Bonus points if you grew them yourself. 🍅🧂

A good pantry staple works with what you’re already cooking. That’s what makes PODIs so versatile. 🫶🏽 Save this guide for the next time you want to try something new!

PODI in Chef’s Kitchen is our way of exploring what happens when PODI leaves our kitchen and enters someone else’s. We begin not with recipes, but with conversations.about memory, technique, ingredients, and the many ways food evolves when it travels.
For our first conversation, we sat down with Chef Sahar Siddiqi of Chai Pani Decatur
We spoke about growing up in a Pakistani home, discovering South Asian cuisines she thought she already knew, cooking with local farmers, and why the best dishes don’t need reinvention, they need intention. The full interview is now live on our blog. Read it via the link in our bio. 🫶🏽

Just sharing the latest findings. Well be taking no further questions at this time.