We eat fruits for their taste and the instant energy we get. We know that fruits are stacked with nutrients. We have our favourite fruits for their taste. But nature has endowed colours to the fruits, for a reason. It is as if nature has colour-coded fruits. The colour of the fruit signifies...
Gym trainers weigh in after shocking deaths of Kannada superstar Puneeth Rajkumar, Andhra Pradesh Minister Goutham Reddy during workouts
Forty years ago, Chennai was a pedestrian- and cyclist-friendly city. Ordinary Chennaiites must reclaim pavements from cars muscling us out.
The use of flowers is not rare in Tamilian cooking. Find out the significance of edible flowers and why they’re getting back into kitchens.
Terminally ill people left on the roads of Madurai to die are now being taken care of by a team of conscientious doctors running a hospice
As the humble Dolo makes the fight against Covid-19 a little tolerable, one hopes that’s all we would need in the future.
Honey has been used since ancient times as a preservative, a medicine and a beauty treatment, but there are some kinds of honey that were used during wars to poison the enemy.
Just like in the West, it seems Tamil Nadu is also seeing the trend of fad diets, the latest being the Keto diet. Even as there is a trend towards traditional foods, there is also a move towards such diets from the West. While many nutritionists warn that the proportion of carbs-proteins-fats...
One of the reasons why Indian cooking is tasty is because of our fried foods. Most of us prefer to have poori over chapathi, gulab jamun over payasam, and even French fries over mashed potatoes. The richness in our various cuisines comes not only from the wonderfully spiced dishes, but from the...
Food grain merchants in Tamil Nadu are worried that the union government’s ambitious project of fortifying rice with iron to avert anemia among women and children will lead to loss of business for them. They say that only big mills can afford to invest in the equipment required to provide the...
