Since our inception in August 2025, we have been humbled by the love India's media has shown us. From national television to leading publications, here is Henchu — Bengaluru's mothers-led home kitchen — in the press.
The thing that caught people's attention is simple. Mothers are earning from their own recipes in a women-led home kitchen in Malleshwaram. A different mum cooks each day, and the dish carries her name. That idea, Karnataka heritage food made by the women who have always cooked it, resonated far beyond Bengaluru. It turned out that a lot of people in India had been waiting for something like this, food that tastes like home because it is made by someone's mother, not a restaurant kitchen.
We have been fortunate to be featured by NDTV, Times of India, The New Indian Express, Times Now and The Better India. Each outlet told a slightly different side of the Henchu story, some focused on the mothers, some on the food, some on what it means for women earning from their own kitchens. Our food truck ScCuXe at Science Gallery Bengaluru also drew attention, bringing our mothers' cooking out of the kitchen and into a space where more people could try it.
One reel changed things for us. It went viral, and within days over four hundred mothers wrote in wanting to cook with Henchu. Messages came from across Bengaluru, from other cities, from mothers who had a recipe their family loved and who wanted it to reach more people. That response told us we were onto something real. The press coverage opened doors, but the mothers who reached out, those are the ones who shaped what Henchu is becoming and what it will be next.