NOSTA iconNOSTA Taste Batch #1
NOSTA · Taste of Home

Food that brings you back.

Rare regional ingredients and specialities, sourced directly from the people who make them. We begin in India’s North East and Eastern Himalaya, then travel outward, one living food tradition at a time.

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NOSTA Taste of Home master identity
Chapter One
North East India & the Eastern Himalaya
Small batch · Named producers · Honest seasonality · Regional foods · Living traditions · Small batch · Named producers · Honest seasonality · Regional foods · Living traditions ·
Four ways into NOSTA

A food world, not just a storefront.

Every path connects place, people, ingredient, recipe and product. Start wherever curiosity takes you.

01 · KNOW THE FOOD

Discover

Explore regions, ingredients, producers, techniques and traditions.

↗ 02 · TASTE THE FOOD

Shop

Small-batch ingredients, trial boxes and seasonal regional collections.

↗ 03 · USE THE FOOD

Cook

Traditional recipes, everyday adaptations and chef-led ideas.

↗ 04 · LIVE THE FOOD

Savour

Stories, people, pop-ups, events and the social life of NOSTA.

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The idea

Most regional food never leaves its own market.

NOSTA is a bridge between small producers and kitchens that want food with a real place, a real season and a real story attached.

Launch territory

Chapter One: the North East & Eastern Himalaya

MeghalayaLakadong turmeric
NagalandAxone · smoked foods
ManipurChakhao black rice
SikkimDalle khursani
AssamJoha rice · teas
ArunachalPerilla · highland foods
DarjeelingBoutique teas
KalimpongNoodles · cheese · pantry
Three commercial territories

One story. Different appetites.

Health is an entry point, flavour drives sharing, and ferments and forest foods build NOSTA’s deepest cultural credibility.

01

Superfood Wellness

  • Lakadong turmeric
  • Chakhao black rice
  • Perilla seed oil
  • Roselle & teas
02

Frontier Flavour

  • Ghost pepper
  • Dalle khursani
  • Bamboo shoot
  • Axone & smoked salt
03

Ferments & Forest Foods

  • Gundruk & kinema
  • Fermented bamboo
  • Foraged greens
  • Wild mushrooms
First taste

Meet Batch #1.

A compact discovery box designed to make the unfamiliar easy to try. The first release brings together four products with the strongest signals in NOSTA’s consumer research.

Explore the box
01 · KALIMPONGKalimpong Noodles
02 · EASTERN HIMALAYADalle Paste
03 · DARJEELINGBoutique Tea
04 · KALIMPONGSwiss Cheese
Old soul, new world
“These aren’t just products. They are living traditions.”

Every NOSTA box carries context: where the food came from, how to use it, who made it and why it matters. The customer does not just cook. They connect.

The first table

Come taste what’s next.

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