Bommi’s Crab Pepper Fry
Seasoned by the Sea is a coastal community cookbook published by Uyir Pathipagam (2025). Bommi’s family is widely known as crab-sellers in the Thazhankuppam region of Tamil Nadu. Her crab dish, involving simple ingredien…
Tamil Nadu
Dried Fish At Amma’s Memorial
In a three-year-long cookbook project spanning the Coromandel coast, Bhagat Singh A. writes a tribute to his late mother.
Inside The Only Caper Farm In India
How team members at Ishka Farms, India’s first and only caper farm in Tamil Nadu, found themselves experimenting with the ingredient,on the field and back in their home kitchens.
On Chennai’s Besant Nagar Coast, A Fisherman Makes Sense of the Sea
Retired fisher S. Palayam collects data that helps fisherfolk in Chennai navigate the weather and sustain ways of traditional fishing.
Ishka Farms: What It Takes to Grow Capers in India
Located in the dry scrublands of Niravi Pudhupatti village, about 45 kilometres from Tuticorin, is Ishka Farms,India’s only caper farm.
Watlappam
Watlappam,a culmination of three ingredients of egg, coconut milk, and palmyra sap sweetener,takes pride of place in the Eid festivities of Kayalpatnam, a Tamil Nadu coastal town.
Kayalpatnam’s Palmyra Sap Delicacies
Sumaiya Mustafa, a chronicler of the city's culinary heritage, talks to The Locavore about how the sap of the palmyra, and ice apples shape lives and livelihoods in her coastal town in Tamil Nadu.
Karuvadu Thokku
With simple cooking techniques birthing complex flavours, Malar Arivazhagan shares this treasured recipe of a dried fish pickle.
The Marine Conservationist Reviving Lost Connections
Divya Karnad, the cofounder of InSeason Fish, is helping people identify different species of fish, and raising awareness on eating locally and seasonally.