Celebrating Tamil Festivals Through Food: Sweets for Every Occasion

In most Tamil households, you can tell what festival is coming up just by walking into the kitchen. The smell of jaggery melting means Pongal is close. Ghee and camphor in the air usually means halwa season for Diwali. Every major festival on the Tamil calendar has its own food identity, and honestly, that’s often […]
Pongal Sweets and Snacks: A Traditional Tamil Nadu Feast Guide

Pongal Sweets and Snacks: A Traditional Tamil Nadu Feast Guide Pongal has a smell to it. Long before anyone says “Pongal vandhachu!”, the house already knows – jaggery melting in a pot, cardamom in the air, and someone stirring a big vessel of rice and moong dal that’s about to become the star of the […]