{"id":58234,"date":"2023-09-10T17:30:47","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T08:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/10\/pasta-risotto-ravioli-humble-millet-parades-its-versatility-in-delhi-for-g20"},"modified":"2023-09-10T17:30:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T08:30:47","slug":"pasta-risotto-ravioli-humble-millet-parades-its-versatility-in-delhi-for-g20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58234","title":{"rendered":"Pasta, risotto, ravioli \u2013 humble millet parades its versatility in Delhi for G20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The neglected but sustainable cereal crop is on every hotel menu in town as India\u2019s government tries to spark a global craze <\/p>\n<p>As the leaders of the world\u2019s largest economies descended on Delhi this weekend, there were two things on the menu: geopolitics and millet.<\/p>\n<p>India is seeking to use its G20 presidency to push a narrative of the country as an economic powerhouse and leader of the global south, but also as a platform to elevate humble millet, a long-neglected but environmentally sustainable cereal that the country\u2019s government is on a campaign to promote. Having already persuaded the UN General Assembly to declare this year as \u201cinternational year of millet\u201d, on Saturday the foreign leaders were treated to a specially curated summit lunch designed to show that millet is undeserving of its lowly reputation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/10\/pasta-risotto-ravioli-humble-millet-parades-its-versatility-in-delhi-for-g20\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The neglected but sustainable cereal crop is on every hotel menu in town as India\u2019s government tries to spark a global craze As the leaders of the world\u2019s largest economies descended on Delhi this weekend, there were two things on the menu: geopolitics&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1847,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[353,311,62,61,42],"tags":[497],"class_list":["post-58234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delhi","category-food","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news","tag-g20"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1847"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58235,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58234\/revisions\/58235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}