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Learn more about the Guntur Sannam in the ‘Know Your Desi Ingredients’ section on @TheLocavoreIn website: thelocavore.in/2026/02/26/gun… You can also find Thomas Zacharias's recipe for Bangda Recheado featuring these chillies on our website! #KnowYourDesiIngredients #TheLocavore

Beyond their culinary use, these chillies also feature in local food traditions and rituals, and play a central role in Andhra Pradesh’s agrarian economy. They are rich in vitamins A and C, capsaicin, and antioxidants.

The Guntur Sannam is a slender, bright red chilli prized for its sharp heat, fruity aroma, and deep colour. It is known as Guntūru mirapakāyalu in Telugu and Guntur red chilli in English.

Learn more about the theme, what we have planned over the next three months, and how you can be part of the conversation on the Local Food Club website: thelocavore.in/2026/04/02/the… Photos by Priyanka Tupe (@behanbox) and Throvnica Chandrasekar

Across 20+ cities, Local Food Clubs will come together to explore what food labour looks like in different contexts, who sustains it, and how we can build more conscious, equitable, and meaningful relationships with it.

The food we eat every day is shaped by the labour of countless people across our local food systems, often in ways we don’t fully see or understand.

In the second quarter of the Local Food Club, we want to understand this intersection in more nuanced ways through a new theme: The Labour Behind Our Food.

Because of how food systems are organised, our understanding of where this work really occurs, and the precarious conditions it takes place under, are often obscured in public imagination.

Learn more about how @sahjeevan_ is conserving breed diversity, and their other interventions spanning agroecology, pastoralism, livelihoods, and climate resilience on @TheLocavoreIn website: thelocavore.in/2026/04/03/sah… Photos by @sahjeevan_

Sahjeevan’s efforts have resulted in eight of these breeds in Gujarat—including Banni buffalo, Kharai camel, Kahami goat, Kachchhi-Sindhi horse, Panchali sheep, Kachchhi donkey, Nari cattle, and Halari donkey—being registered as distinct breeds.

Our new #TLpartner organisation, @sahjeevan_, a non-profit based in Gujarat, works with pastoralists across the Kachchh, Surendranagar, and Rajkot districts.