Cities and their People: A Meal With a Local Family Along With a Cooking Demo

In this specially curated tour, you will visit a local’s home for a cooking demonstration followed by lunch/dinner featuring a traditional Tamil Brahmin Cuisine (South Indian vegetarian).

The Tamil Brahmin cuisine is based on the concept that food shapes and derives the personality, mood and mind. In a Brahmin household food is always cooked with a great deal of attention to cleanliness and even to the balancing of nutrition, flavour, texture, and variety. All this coupled with the knowledge that the divine must be the first ‘taster’ of the day’s meal. 

Different spices play an important role in the dishes. Fenugreek is used as a digestive aid, cumin for its multiple benefits, dried legumes and beans for their protein, pepper for colds and coughs and turmeric as a healer. Every ingredient that is used in the cuisine has a purpose that goes beyond taste and texture.

Rice and dal is usually the staple diet - the food is characterized by dishes cooked on the griddle such as dosas or thin broth like dals called sambar. The cuisine is also known for its heavy use of 'Kari' leaves, tamarind and coconut.

The menu can be customized to meet your diet preferences. Please let us know if you have any food allergies.