South Indian Kitchen

This multicolored and elegantly produced handy guide carries carefully selected recipes with photographs of respective delicacies. It was not long ago that any reference to south Indian food would bring to the mind of a north Indian images of dosas (plain pancakes), vadas (fried patties), idlis (steamed rice cakes) and uttapams (vegetable pancakes). But the fact is that the cuisine of all the four south Indian states, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala, is not exactly the same.