Food & Culture·26 min read
Boti Chefs: The Hereditary Cooks Behind Himachali Dham
A Boti starts at four in the morning, builds a kitchen from scratch in three hours, cooks the Himachali Dham in century-old brass charoti vessels, and walks the painth barefoot to serve it. The story of HPs hereditary master cooks, told properly for the first time in English.
Rajesh Thakur·5/9/2026