HOMEBOUND PODCASTS

Food is both deeply ordinary and profoundly more than that. It nourishes us, but it has also sustained us as social beings for generations — carrying stories, memories, care, and connection across time. In the sixth — and second last — episode of this season, we sit down with Nepal’s emerging public health professional and food storyteller Naviya Kafle. Together, we explore how cooking and sharing...

🙏🏽 May all the transgressions we have collectively made as a human race be purified, may we be forgiven and may we all walk the path of wisdom and compassion. 🪔 Join us in the fifth episode of Homebound podcasts with Zak Aldridge, a Vajrayana practitioner and Buddha Dharma scholar who helps us reflect on and deepen our role as humans. From the perspective of Buddha Dharma, he helps us see how o...

Public health begins at home! At 66, Nepal’s pioneer public health expert and healthy eating champion Dr. Aruna Uprety isn’t slowing down, she feels healthier than ever, in her body and spirit—and she credits every bit of it to home-cooked meals. She advocates home-cooking is not only an individual choice but a public health agenda. 🦠 While exploring gut microbiome, gut-mind connection, and dysbi...

Tadyathā Oṃ Bhaiṣajye Bhaiṣajye Mahābhaiṣajya-samudgate Svāhā Whoever you are, wherever you may be—may the whisper of this prayer reach you. May you find your path to healing, and may the remedies you seek come gently into your life. As we share the third episode of our podcast series, we hold a deep intention: healing. We offer this conversation as a small vessel of care, connection, and restorat...

Have you thought that our kitchens and gardens can be a place of power, and freedom? Decolonisation might sound like a big term but it can start small. We can start right at our kitchen by reclaiming our health and wellbeing. Decolonial might sound like disengagement, but it is anything but disengagement...it's about engagement with the living wisdom of our community and finding interconnection in...

Have you thought about how political your plate can be? If farmers are at the centre of our food system, how can we better acknowledge them in our plates? If our farming system is guided by monsoon, how changing climate is disrupting that? And about the imported food culture and how to better replace them with local produce? With Prashant Khanal, we will dive into the politics behind our choice of...

The food on your plate, is it so simple? The first season of Homebound Podcasts focused on the slow food culture. What we have learned along the way while researching and recording for the first season have blown our mind and might just change the way you think of food. Carved with voices of extraordinary wisdom keepers, we have tried to widely cover the slow and subtle aspects of food. But this s...