Lakshmi Patti's Samayal
200+ Tamilian vegetarian recipes from over seventy years of cooking, written down by Lakshmi Santhanam at ninety.
Contents
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Breakfast & Tiffin Items
Idli, dosa, upma and the everyday morning table, with the accompaniments and tiffin items that go with them.
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Meal Time Menu Recipes
A full Tamilian meal, course by course: salads and pachadi, kari, kootu, sambar, kuzhambu, rasam, rice and podis.
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Sweets, Deep-Fried Snacks & Festival Menu
Payasams, halwas and Mysore pak, the fried snacks, and the menus for Pongal, Gokulashtami, Navarathri and the other festival days.
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MUM's Instant Mixes, Pickles, Vadams & Juices
The instant powders, pickles, vadams, juices and jams behind her home business, MUM's Homemade Products.
Four chapters, 200+ recipes. See what's inside
From the book
What's inside
Four chapters and a glossary, 200+ recipes, all from the printed book.
The family
Lakshmi Patti, her children and her grandchildren, who wrote about her in the book. Open a card to read what each of them said, in their own words.
Her children
Her grandchildren
Lakshmi Patti's Samayal interviews
Two conversations with Patti about her cooking and the book, recorded by the family.
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Lakshmi Patti's Recipe Book Interview
Kavita talks with Patti about the recipe book over a video call. It was Kavita who started the book during COVID, writing the recipes down as Patti dictated them over the phone from India.
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Mala Interviewing Lakshmi Patti's Samayal
Mala sits beside Patti and interviews her about her interest in cooking. Mala spent three years with her choosing, writing and checking the recipes that became the book.
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Her World
Everything she made beyond the kitchen: dolls, batik, kolams, music, her advice to the grandchildren, and the business she ran from home. Photographed by the family, every piece named.
Ten pieces she made
Dolls, batik and kolams the family photographed. Open a strip, or use the arrow keys.
Anantha Sayanam. From her doll collection.
See the collectionGet the book
Lakshmi Patti's Samayal: 200+ Tamilian Vegetarian Recipes. Hardcover, Lakshmi Santhanam. On Amazon, from the store for your region.
In their words
What her grandchildren wrote for the book, one line each.
“her Vathal kuzhambu is unmatched”