April 22, 2026
Being here in India, reminds me of how much food is ancestral and how spices heal the body.
India has a way of showing you that healing through food was never a trend. It was a way of life.
Food is not just about taste-it’s intentional.
I am a “foodie” who loves spices and herbs in food. Food without spice and seasoning is like a day without sunshine.
I am aware that food is medicine but something here has shifted in me as the healing part of Indian food is lineage based and spices here are more than flavor.
Somewhere along the way, the western world has forgotten this because while we all love delicious food; we desire taste, appearance and convenience over anything.
Here’s the truth: before pharmaceuticals came into this world, spice and herb cabinets were medicine. Grandmothers made food with the intention of sustenance and healing.
The ancestors were not just cooking, they were prescribing. I know this because my maternal grandmother was one of those who could turn a simple, inexpensive meal into the most delicious, nutritious, healing medicine.
She never used a cook book or attended a culinary school, she just knew what to do.
I suppose it was instinct but I know for sure, she put her love energy into every she cooked-all from scratch.
In Southern India the same spices are used in daily rotation- every meal there’s curry.
So you see, food has always been intentional and ancestral and no place is this more evident than in India.
Across many ancient and indigenous cultures-whether in Africa, India, the Americas, or Southeast Asia-food wasn’t separate from healing.
It was healing.
It’s about Remembering What was always there.
Food was understood as energy, information, and relationship.
In systems like Ayurveda, Food is prescribed based on your body type, your environment, even the season you’re in.
In many African traditions, recipes were passed down not just for taste-but for survival, healing, and continuity of the people.
This was encoded knowledge.
As industrialization and Western systems expanded globally, something shifted. Food became:
In many places it became disconnected from:
This doesn’t mean everything Western is harmful, but it does mean that something was lost in transition.
I have noticed people coming back to the understanding that:
What you put into your body is not separate from your healing.
Your body already knows…..
and sometimes, it’s not about learning something new.
It’s about remembering what was always there.
This is ancestral memory waking back up in the body.
Returning to food as medicine is not just about nutrition, it is about reconnecting to ancestral wisdom, honoring the body, and choosing intentional healing.
Being here in India makes me remember my own roots…
To the understanding that what our ancestors knew-across continents, across cultures-was that healing didn’t always come in a bottle.
Sometimes it came in a pot.
Sometimes it came in the hands of someone who knew what to add, when to add it, and why.
This is what this moment is about.
Remembering that food is intentional.
Food is ancestral.
Food is medicine
And maybe part of our healing …
Is coming back to that relationship again.
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