dhoop uses food as a lens. Through this lens, we interrogate culture, sustainability, design, and the
systems that sustain life. We started as a magazine focused on stories of food and its intersec;ons. The
theme of issue 3 is cooking. The cooking is seemingly ordinary. There are preconceived no;ons, biases,
ideas, and expecta;ons that come with pu@ng together a theme, much like a bowl of pressure-cooked
dal. My own experience of cooking is as deeply personal as it is strangely universal—some elements
shared, others starkly different. But what made this issue par;cularly interes;ng was exploring how
cooking interacts with the scope of dhoop’s bigger picture. We aren’t just talking about cooking in
isola;on, we are talking about how cooking interacts and engages with nature, culture, sustainability,
and design.