Editorial Policy

This policy describes how everything on Aryaas is produced. It applies to every recipe, category page and guide on the site.

How we choose what to write about

We publish cornerstone guides rather than a high volume of thin posts. A dish earns a guide if it is genuinely foundational to a South Indian vegetarian kitchen, if it is commonly got wrong, or if the existing writing about it online is misleading. We do not publish a recipe simply because it is being searched for heavily. The library is deliberately small and we would rather it stayed that way.

How a recipe is developed

Recipes begin from household practice, not from other websites. The developer cooks the dish as they know it, writes down what they actually did rather than what they intended to do, then cooks it again from those written notes to see whether the notes work. Any step that cannot be followed from the written version alone gets rewritten.

Quantities are given in cups and spoons because that is how this food is cooked at home, with weights added where precision genuinely matters. Timings are given as ranges with a sensory check attached, because an eight-minute instruction is useless on an unfamiliar hob.

Editing and sign-off

Every guide is edited by the other author before publication. The editor checks the method for gaps, checks regional claims against what they know and can source, and sends back anything that asserts a single version is authentic without saying whose version it is. Nothing is published that only one of us has read.

Corrections and updates

Guides carry a visible last-updated date. When a reader reports an error and we can verify it, we correct the page and move the date. Substantive corrections, meaning anything that changes the method or the outcome, are described on the page itself rather than quietly edited. Our fact-checking policy sets out how claims are verified.

What we will not publish

• Health claims. We are cooks and writers, not clinicians, and we do not make claims about what any food does for a medical condition.
• Recipes we have not cooked.
• Paid placements inside editorial content. Advertising is labelled and kept separate; see our advertising disclosure.
• Origin stories we cannot source. Where the history of a dish is contested or unknown, we say so.
• Content generated without a person cooking, testing and signing off on it.

Independence

No brand, retailer or restaurant can pay for a mention, a recommendation or a change to a recipe. If we ever accept a product for testing, that is disclosed on the page. We do not run a restaurant and we are not affiliated with any business trading under a similar name.