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by Kaveri Ponnapa

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Kaveri Ponnapa

Kaveri Ponnapa is a widely published writer on food, wine and heritage. She is the author of The Vanishing Kodavas (2013), an acclaimed cultural study of the Kodava people. In A Place Apart: Poems from Kodagu (2021), Ponnapa has translated into English poems from the Kodava language which is on UNESCO’s list of “definitely endangered” languages.
Since 2012, she has written a popular blog, The Coorg Table, through which she has introduced the cuisine of Coorg to home kitchens across India and the globe, as well as to professional chefs and restaurants. Ponnapa has been named one of the noted, influential culinary professionals of Karnataka by the Institute of Hotel Management, Bengaluru. Her third cook, Coorg: The Cookbook, explores the foodways of the Kodava people through essays about rice farmers, coffee planters, home cooks and beekeepers, and includes over one hundred recipes.
A noted researcher and writer on Kodava culture and history, in 2021, Ponnapa was awarded the Gaurava Puraskara by the Karnataka Kodava Sahitya Academy in recognition of her work on Kodava heritage and culture.

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