A comprehensive collection of recipes that brings together the best of traditional cuisine from Kerala. The recipes in this volume cover the entire range of vegetables, meat, seafood, pickles, sweets and snacks served both as daily fare and as part of the sadya on festive occasions. In recent times, the coconut-flavored cuisine of the Malayalis has gained immense popularity. Appam and Istoo, Avial and Olan, Irachi Biryani and Pathiri, all these and more are now served in restaurants and homes all over India.