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The best of Alamelu's cookbooks and TV recipes in one volume!"I highly recommend Healthful Indian Flavors with Alamelu to readers who want to take advantage of the powerful, healing antioxidant qualities of spices and at the same time, indulge in the flavor-rich, wholesome offerings of Indian cuisine." Dr. Bharat Aggarwal, author of Healing Spices: How to Use 50 Everyday and Exotic Spices to Boost Health and Beat Disease**As seen on MPTV!** This cookbook contains the recipes featured on the first three seasons of Alamelu Vairavan's popular MPTV/PBS cooking series "Healthful Indian Flavors with Alamelu," along with favorites from her previously-published cookbooks, Healthy South Indian Cooking and Indian-Inspired Gluten Free Cooking.
About the Author
Alamelu Vairavan is an enthusiastic advocate for preparing food that is both tasty and healthy using spices and legumes.
Alamelu has published several cookbooks that have helped even novice cooks discover easy ways to prepare healthful foods with Indian flavors. If you think children have to be persuaded or tricked into eating more vegetables try Alameu's recipes. You may be in for a surprise! She believes even vegetable haters can be transformed to vegetable lovers with subtle enhancements using spices and legumes.
Alamelu's popular cooking TV series titled, "Healthful Indian Flavors With Alamelu," produced by Milwaukee Public Television(MPTV) , has been aired on Public Television in Wisconsin and in many parts of the United States on PBS CREATE since 2010. Please check your local PBS station schedule for details. (Previous episodes can be seen via www.mptv.org ) . Alamelu's new book titled, "Healthful Indian Flavors with Alamelu" (Hippocrene Books, NY, Nov. 2016) includes most and the best of the recipes featured in her PBS TV series.
In her cookbooks and TV presentations, Alamelu emphasizes easy to prepare, aromatic and flavorful foods. The Los Angeles Times, for example, has referred to her recipes as, "coconut-infused curries, brilliant vegetable dishes", and has noted "what could be complex becomes relatively simple in Vairavan's approach."
In 2009, Alamelu presented a sold-out workshop, titled, "Enticing Indian Falvors" at the James Beard Foundation, in Manhattan, New York for which she received recognition of "outstanding contribution" from the foundation. Alamelu has also been featured as a celebrity chef at the Annual Kohler Food & Wine event in Kohler, Wisconsin and in Dine and Wine Wisconsin event in MIlwaukee. She has also made culinary presentations in Scottsdale, AZ and in Chicago, Ill.
Alamelu has also offered wellness and team-building programs to many corporations. She has trained chefs to offer healthful options in restaraunts and in company cafeterias. She also makes time for numerous community programs in schools, libraries, hospital outreach programs and in community centers, and for fundraising events.
Besides authoring several books, Alamelu has also contributed recipes to the book, "Healing Spices" by Dr. Bharat Aggarwal (a cancer research scientist at M.D. Anderson Cancer Care Center) that was published in 2011. Her contributions have also been featured in "Cooking Healthy Across America", an American Dietetic Association cookbook,(John Wliey, 2005) .
If you wish to start cooking using Alameu's recipes from her TV series or books but do not have the basic spices, visit: "Alamelu's Start-Up Spice Package" on Amazon.com.
Alamelu can be contacted through her website: www.curryonwheels.com. Her Facebook page is
