SHILLONG: The East Garo Hills District administration with the support of Arts and Culture Department will make a documentary film on ‘Garo Culinary Practices’.
The Deputy Commissioner Vijay Mantri said that this would be the first ever attempt to comprehensively document the Garo culinary practices.
Food is an integral and most important part of Garo culture. Garo dishes are known for its delicacy and distinctiveness. Garo dishes such as Kappa, Pura, Nakam, Watepa, Brenga among others derive their names from the procedure rather than ingredients. A Committee of senior citizen, social workers, and artistes that was entrusted with the task of listing out all the Garo dishes, submitted a list of more than 100 Garo traditional dishes.
The documentary will be filmed on February 6 and 7 at Nengmandalgre village, hamlet lying across Simsang River.
Garo women will be cooking around 100 Garo dishes on the sets of traditional Garo houses which are constructed specifically for the documentary film on the banks of Chibok river, a tributary of Simsang River.
Apart from the documentary film, a coffee table book on Garo culinary practices will be published which will serve generations providing authentic knowledge on Garo traditional dishes.