About

Namaste! We are Rajesh and Shankari, one converted foodie and the other a foodie from birth. What started off as a diary of sorts became a wonderful medium to foster and build friendships and showcase our passion for food & photography.

While Rajesh loves photography, shankari loves to teach and cooking. These two passions culminate on our website. All pictures here are our own, there are recipes that we have tried from other websites, cook books ,who we have given due credit and recipes from our family.

About Shankari

My love for eating and reminiscing about food started very young. Coming from a large family from both maternal & paternal side, meant lots of cooking and eating. Earliest memories are of sitting around my grandmother with about 15 cousins under the moonlight. My grandmother would tell us stories as she would place a ball of yogurt rice in the palm of our hands.  We would have a long wish list of delicacies that we would request our aunts and grandma to cook. My love for cooking started when I moved away from home to work. I would miss my amma’s cooking and call her for specific recipes and some I would try to replicate trying to remember from the time I would sit on our kitchen counter forcing her to listen to  every thing that happened in school/college while she cooked. As I started eating out with friends more often, the desire to come home and make these dishes became an obsession and there began my love affair with cooking.

About Rajesh

I got my interest in photography from my dad, who loves capturing the moment. I have always seen my dad with his canon rangefinder taking pictures of us kids at school events etc. I got my first camera a traveller TLR box camera when I was 10. I love taking landscapes and macro (aka bugs). Photographing Shankari’s recipes has refined my palette and made me a foodie. I have cooked up a few recipes that Shankari loves, and wants me to repeat (true sign that she really relished the dish). I enjoy hiking, outdoors and usually have my camera on me.