Kaveri Ponnapa

In the rush of everyday cooking, it’s often easy to overlook the beauty and individuality of very ordinary ingredients. Take the familiar aubergine, for instance…

A small ritual unfolds at sunset in many Coorg homes. There’s a clinking of glasses as they are arranged on trays, followed by the heavier..

Kadambuttus are an old-fashioned favourite – plump, steamed rice puttus, faintly glossy on the outside, firm and moist in texture. They are cooked piled up..

The beauty of Coorg deepens towards the end of the year, when acre after acre of paddy grows tall, slender stalks, first translucent, then a..

Koli barthad – quite simply, fried chicken – is one of those unassuming, ordinary sort of dishes that can transform a meal into something special…

It’s raining in Coorg right now. Clouds hang heavy over the hills, and a steady downpour that may last for days has blurred the landscape…

Rice is the ultimate comfort food: reliable, unpretentious and always present on the table, I could not live without it. Sometimes, it turns into something..

Luscious, sweet, fragrant and seductive – I play out the mango season every year with Langras, Dasheris, Safedas, Chausas, Neelams, Alphonsos and all that the..

A small, round version of a banana fritter, bale muruku is something I just love to make. For one thing, it’s so easy, requiring minimum..

Every now and then, the regular spread on the lunch table begins to look like too much of a good thing, particularly when I happen..

For the better part of my teens, I was vegetarian by choice. Not dramatic, under normal circumstances, but since I am Coorg, it led to..