About

Hello Everyone!

After much coaxing and encouragement by family and friends, I am taking a leap of faith with The Missing Drumstick . Because, if we don’t tell our stories, who will !?!

Being born in a family of passionate food lovers and surrounded by people with discerning palates and a refined understanding of food, meant that I was introduced to the nuances of cooking at an early age. Assisting Aammaa in the kitchen and being her ‘Sous’ has contributed a great deal in shaping my sensibilities and food philosophy. She always encouraged me to befriend and play with flavours.

Over the years, food became the medium I could express myself best through and now I essentially cook to communicate. Food has been a forgiving friend, a confidant, a teacher and a constant companion I have found solace, comfort and shelter in. Cooking is therapeutic, cathartic, healing and has saved and rescued me on more than one occasion.

The Missing Drumstick is a space where I chronicle things I do with and for food, as I look at the world through a Kaleidoscope of flavours from my home kitchen in Mumbai.

I invite you to be my companion, my fellow-traveller and look forward to an exciting and enriching journey of endless learning as we walk the food path.

Swapneel Prabhu