India GOCooking class in Varanasi
Cooking a Banarasi meal in a home kitchen
Shop the vegetable market with a host, then cook a Banarasi meal in a family kitchen (kachori and jalebi, a local chaat, the city's own spicing) and eat what you made at the family table.
from ₹1500 · Most days; morning classes tend to include the market, evening classes the full meal
Malaiyo, the winter foam that is gone by eleven
Find a vendor in the winter-morning lanes selling malaiyo: milk left out overnight to catch the dew, hand-churned to a saffron-and-cardamom foam and scooped into a clay cup, eaten standing up before it collapses.
from ₹30 · Winter only, roughly mid-November to early March. Made overnight and sold from early morning; it collapses and is gone by about 11:00.
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