India, July 31 -- Before the first light reaches the forest floor, the kithul tapper is already climbing. His bamboo ladder leans against a fishtail palm that rises 40 feet above the wet earth of Ambe... Read More
New Delhi, July 17 -- At Dodā Atelier in Goa, Alvinia DeSouza slides a cup across the counter. It's a drinking chocolate-70% dark, made from cacao she grows herself. It is nothing like the milky ... Read More
New Delhi, May 22 -- You can read a coconut tree like a document. Smooth bark means a tree never tapped; notched footholds, called khapa in Goa, signal a history stretching back to Portuguese-era law,... Read More