Venba is described as a narrative cooking game centered on an Indian family that immigrated to Canada from Tamil Nadu in the ’80s. You play as Venba, a mother and wife who is using food to ...

10. Arisi Thengai Payasam A traditional Tamil Sappadu would be incomplete without the sweet, sweet Payasam. It is a Kheer-like dessert and this one is made with rice, coconut and jaggery. Another ...

Ammini kozhukattai, a savoury snack made once a year during Ganesh Chaturthi in Tamil homes, is the most popular seasonal food item in Deepa Balasubramaniam’s home in Mumbai. On Ganesh Chaturthi ...

Quietly underlying all of Surendra’s Tamil food videos is a principle not often found in today’s cooking how-tos: the art of eyeballing. “There’s no measuring,” he explains.

The multi-course buffet, according to Damu, has at its core the philosophy ‘Food is medicine‘. “These recipes are from villages in Tamil Nadu that I travelled to; I have given all of them my ...

Economical storytelling Though Venba ’s story sounds sprawling on paper, documenting its central family over four decades, its success comes in its restraint. The quiet saga unfolds over seven ...

Add sliced garlic and curry leaves, cooking until translucent. Add chopped tomatoes, cooking thoroughly. Stir in chili, turmeric, and coriander powders, then add the masala paste. Add tamarind water ...

Tamil Nadu's culinary scene is more vibrant than ever. It's the same across India where local content creators and a growing dining out scene are changing the way we eat and document these memories.

A 67-year-old Tamil cookbook taught me what shiny food sites could not S Meenakshi Ammal’ ‘Samaithu Paar’ is packed with sudden instructions, underlying threats but also recognisable recipes ...

His real breakthrough came when he partnered with Roni Mazumdar and Chintan Pandya of Unapologetic Foods, a New York restaurant group, to open Semma - a Tamil slang word for "fantastic" in 2021.

All of this, in an island roughly the size of Tasmania. Sinhalese and Tamil recipes are not divided into chapters in this cookbook, but are woven together.