An ode to the Palakkadan Ullisammanthi
Sometimes the quickest way home is through a smell.

A corner of the cottage
Mysorepak mornings, ullisammanthi, kappa and kaanthari — and all the stories that somehow come with food.
Some of my favourite memories have a taste, a smell or a recipe attached to them. This is where I keep them — things I grew up eating, things I still cook, forgotten recipes, little food discoveries, and the people and places that came along with them.
Sometimes the quickest way home is through a smell.
Sitting outside in that small courtyard, eating this wonderful delicacy, listening to the various sounds of the forest, breathing in the fresh, unpolluted, cool air, and lost in our own…
Some fragrances don't just fill a house; they fill the heart.
A few days back, there was a picture of a coconut tree laden with almost 2000 coconuts, in a local newspaper. Coconuts were hanging down very impressively, and it certainly left many a…