“Be forewarned,” I was told, “it will make you deeply hungry.” This was in reference to the new memoir by Padma Lakshmi, Love, Loss, and What We Ate, out since March. Last week, I attended a lecture ...

Whereever South Indians go, we are there,” says K.V. Vijayaraghavan, managing partner of Ambika Appalams, a wide smile escaping his otherwise stern face. That sure is reassuring for the thousands of ...

They say the trick to achieving the perfect appalam lies in the hands of the maker. The process is referred to as appalam ‘iduradhu’ — a Tamil word that doesn’t have an exact English equivalent.