to enable the posterity to celebrate their legacythe culinary narrative ups food heritage constitutes mughlai awadhi and banarasi cuisines awadhs courts were famous for their elaborate gourmet cuisine including the dum pukth style originally perfected for its royalty astonishingly rich and yet subtle mathura and vrindavan are famous for their vegetarian fare traditional banarasi food stands for purity simplicity and refinement rampur kitchens also serve delectable food visitors are invariably enamoured by ups culinary heritagemonetisation of heritageif ups heritage is monetised responsibly a significant portion of its gdp target of usd 1 trillion can come from tourism alone there is a hugely untapped heritage tourism goldmine that we are sitting on we need to create a topnotch thinktank comprising hoteliers travel agents tour operators experts and revivalists to ideate visualise and lead the transformation of up as asias mostsought after heritage tourismled economyjayant krishna heads the indian national trust for art cultural heritage intach in up he is also on intachs governing council