Tradition to Transition: Cultural, Nutritional, and Ecological Transformations of Kathiyawadi Cuisine in Rajkot and Jasdan, Gujarat

Kathiyawadi food, originating from the titular Kathiawar Region in Gujarat, India, is a cuisine that can be observed as most explicitly being shaped by environmental factors, a dry- arid climate. Katiyawadi food is prided for its bold and heavy flavours, it is uncompromising in this aspect, a fact that coupled with ardent practitioners of the cuisine has ensured, a surviving integrity that is shielded from advancements of modern age