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SAMAYAL in Tamil simply means cooking.

' Annam Parabrahma Swaroopam ' ANNAM or food is a form of the Almighty according to the Hindu scriptures. All beings are born and live by food and ultimately go back to the earth and merge in it to become food. Food is the supreme medicine of all.

The new book 'The French Cookbook' is co-authored by Padmini Natarajan. She is a writer, wordsmith, story teller and contributes articles, blogs, poems to many Chennai newpapers and national magazines and websites. Viji and Padmini have come together in this book and present a very unique and authentic Tambram cuisine.

A unique cookbook that uses only native vegetables in the recipes.

• This book is dedicated to generations of women in our families who quietly and anonymously carved their personalities in their cooking traditions and rituals of daily life.
• To mothers who have handed down skills to daughters before they left home; and mothers-in-law who taught new brides who came into the family – recipes, usages, tips and tricks to turn out tasty meals.
• People who passed on by word of mouth and practice, various customs, norms, procedures and observations that have kept the Hindu society vibrantly alive.

SPECIAL AWARD OF THE JURY

GOURMAND WORLD COOKBOOK AWARDS 2009 - for, THE BEST IN THE WORLD: