Lets Explore
Food, tradition, and everyday life of Assam.
Cooked slowly. Lived daily. Passed down quietly.
From morning kitchens to festival meals, Assamese food reflects how people live, farm, celebrate, and gather. This space documents those everyday practices — the recipes, techniques, ingredients, and stories that shape Assam’s food culture.
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About The Local Cookman
The Local Cookman is a documentation of Assamese food as it is lived — in everyday kitchens, shaped by season, land, and memory.
Here, cooking is not performance or trend. It is routine, care, and experience. Recipes are rarely written down; they are remembered, adjusted, and passed on quietly through generations.
This platform exists to record those everyday food practices before they are altered, renamed, or forgotten.
WHAT WE DO
We create video reels documenting authentic Assamese cuisine as it is cooked in everyday kitchens — shaped by season, availability, and lived experience.
Alongside this documentation, we aim to offer local and organic food products rooted in Assam’s traditional food culture, prepared and sourced with care from within the community.
Everything we do is guided by the same intent:
to preserve, present, and support local food practices without altering their essence.
FROM OUR KITCHEN
Moments from real kitchens, filmed as they are — without staging, shortcuts, or performance.
Explore Cuisines of Assam
Assamese food is not traditionally divided into courses, but to help explore it better, we organise dishes into familiar categories — without changing how they are cooked or understood.
Starters
Light preparations and small dishes often eaten alongside meals.Main Course
Rice-centered plates with pork, chicken, fish, bamboo shoot, sesame, and slow-cooked gravies.Snacks
Everyday foods prepared between work and rest — fried, steamed, roasted, or fermented.Side Dishes
Pitika, chutneys, and accompaniments that balance flavour and texture.Desserts & Sweets
Rice-based sweets and festival foods made sparingly and tied to tradition.Beverages
Traditional drinks connected to climate, agriculture, and community life.
Spices of Assam
The flavours seen in our kitchens come from ingredients prepared with the same care. We aim to offer small-batch, local, and organic spices rooted in traditional Assamese cooking — made using methods followed in everyday households, not factories.
These products are an extension of the kitchens we document, not separate from them.
Why It Matters
Much of Assam’s food culture is underrepresented or misunderstood.
Documenting everyday cooking is one way to ensure these traditions remain visible, respected, and remembered.
Cooked quietly. Filmed honestly.
Short moments from real kitchens — where food is prepared the way it has always been, without performance or shortcuts.
Pork with Tengamora Guti (Roselle flower buds)