Reshmi R Nair

I write and teach at the join between language and learning — Malayalam and English, curriculum design, and how people actually acquire things rather than how syllabuses imagine they do. The Kerala Plate came out of the same instinct: take something everybody thinks they already understand, take it apart properly, and put it back together so it works.

Kerala has a genuine metabolic problem and a genuinely good food culture, and most of the advice offered to Malayali readers treats the second as the cause of the first. It mostly isn't. What changed was portion, polish and the quiet disappearance of the pulse curry from beside the grain. Those are fixable without asking anyone to stop cooking what they know.

Every number on this site is sourced. Where a value could not be found in ICMR-NIN's Indian Food Composition Tables or USDA FoodData Central, the book says so rather than printing a figure it cannot stand behind. Where the evidence is a fifteen-person mechanism study rather than an outcome trial, it says that too.

Elsewhere

I also run SpeakMalayalam.com and VedaTopper.com, and publish Malayalam and Kerala-subject educational books under my own name and the Veda Topper imprint.

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Corrections to a recipe, a sourcing question, or a Malayalam word I have got wrong — all welcome. Add your contact address here before you publish the site.