The Five

Five oils. One press. One promise.

Mustard, groundnut, sesame, coconut, and deepam — each drawn cold, from a single source, in a wooden ghaani that has not stopped since 1965.

Drawn cold from the year's first mustard, amber and pungent.

Light, high-smoke, the everyday oil of South and West Indian frying.

Til oil, drawn from the first winter crop. The oldest pressed oil on the subcontinent.

Pressed from sun-dried copra. The oil of Kerala, Konkan, and the South.

The oil for the lamp. Pressed for the diya, not for the kadhai.