Where Goa’s Food Stories Are Researched, Recorded, and Remembered

The Culture Club is a research-driven community committed to preserving Goa’s culinary heritage and cultural memory — through evidence, not just emotion. While much of Goa’s food history survives through oral traditions, we go a step further: building a fact-checked, peer-reviewed archive of stories, recipes, and practices to ensure this rich legacy is never forgotten.

📚 What We Do

We approach Goan food culture with both reverence and rigour. Our projects include:

• Historical recipe reconstruction from rare manuscripts and oral accounts
• Ingredient mapping and trade route analysis
• Oral history interviews with elders, community cooks, and local artisans
• Archival research — tracing old menus, diaries, factory records, and church registers
• Walks, talks, podcast episodes, and collaborative deep dives into Goan traditions

We blend fieldwork with academic methods and always include clear disclaimers when evidence is incomplete or inconclusive — separating fact from folklore with care and respect.

Want a taste of what we do? Explore our research in the Asilvaspoon Podcast.

🧵 Who’s Involved?

The Culture Club is proudly interdisciplinary. Our community includes:

• Passionate home cooks
• Independent researchers and food scholars
• Journalists, archivists, and culinary historians
• Students, locals, and diasporic Goans
• Anyone curious about Goa’s past — and its future

It’s this mix of formal and informal voices that gives our work depth and dimension.

🛠️ How We Work

We believe preserving food history requires more than nostalgia — it needs:

• Accuracy — cross-checked facts over assumed truths
• Integrity — acknowledging gaps, crediting sources
• Curiosity — always asking why and how, not just what

This is not just storytelling. It’s documentation. It’s cultural preservation. It’s Goa — understood through its food, its rituals, and its forgotten footnotes.