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Lathika George is a Bombay-born Syrian Christian who moved to Kerala during her teens. A culinary enthusiast and organic gardener, she writes about food, farming and environmental issues. Lathika is also the author of Mother Earth, Sister Seed: Travels through India's Farmlands. She lives in Kodaikanal in South India. Abraham Verghese is a physician and writer and holds the Linda R. Meier and Joan F. Lane Provostial Professorship at Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA. He is the author of the bestselling novel, Cutting for Stone and The Covenant of Water.
"""A delightful, evocative, sumptuous menu, redolent of fresh green paddy fields, coconut palms swaying in the breeze, and the pungent spices of the Malabar coast . . . mouth-watering and heart-warming!"" —Shashi Tharoor Former UN Undersecretary General and author of The Great Indian Novel “I have never read a cookbook from cover to cover in one sitting, but then The Kerala Kitchen is so much more than a cookbook: It is travelogue, memoir and food diary. What better way to understand the community of Syrian Christians of Kerala—my community—than through our appetites. I was transported back to my grandmother’s kitchen and I could hear the mustard seeds bursting and smell the delicious curries brewing in the clay pots she heated on a stove that was no more than a tripod of bricks with coconut husks as fuel. The Kerala Kitchen is a must . . . the easy and elegantly described recipes, the primer on spices and their uses, make these dishes accessible to all. Enjoy!” —Abraham Verghese author of The Covenant of Water “Here you will find clear recipes for the best of Kerala's fine foods, written with great love by someone who has been a part of that culinary tradition since birth.”--Madhur Jaffrey “The Kerala Kitchen is that most marvelous of cookbooks—where the stories are as good as the recipes. It makes me hungry, and it makes me want to travel to the Kerala that Lathika George conjures so evocatively. This is a book that is for anyone who's interested in India, or in eating well.” —Suketu Mehta, author of Maximum City"
