Goila Butter Chicken

The Home Cooks Feeding India’s COVID Patients | Eater

"Founded by a well-known chef who began receiving requests for gentle, home-style meals for COVID-impacted families, this restaurant chain’s founder leveraged his social media reach to create a centralized, verified listing of home cooks across India. What began as a Google spreadsheet became a portal that now lists over 4,000 home cooks, restaurateurs, and volunteers across 300 cities; most provide free meals while some charge a nominal fee (under about $1.50 for vegetarian and $2 for non-vegetarian). The initiative was driven by the demand for comfort food that is light on oil, salt, and spices—meals better suited to recovery than regular restaurant takeout—and the portal saw massive traffic at the peak of the second wave, dropping from roughly 100,000 hits a week to about 40,000 as cases declined." - Rathina Sankari