Culture Club


Apoorva Sripathi

The Fifth Knot by Albrecht Durer, Art Institute of Chicago


to make yoghurt


                               you need
      

                                                   more yoghurt


                               and heat


and milk
   

                               and time


                                                   and soon 


                               cultures will


come 


                               calling


                                                   souring 


                               growing


leaving curds behind


                               structures of themselves


                                                   archaeological knowledge


                               and roots


steeped in time


Apoorva Sripathi is a writer, editor, poet, and artist from Chennai, now based in London. Her projects include shelf offering, an archive of food, art, memory, history, and politics and the grounded report, a repository of her writing, art, and everything else. She is the co-founder and editor of CHEESE, the magazine of culture, and her writing has been published in Kinfolk, Vittles, Wellcome Collection, and Feminist Food Journal. She is also the co-founder and co-editor of chlorophyll.