Baker
Picked up on one of a handful of trips I have made to Kerala, this is a very user-friendly introductory guide to the state’s food. It was brilliant to be able to come home and bash out something approximating the delicious egg roast and porotta I’d enjoyed more or less every breakfast, and the thorans that had accompanied almost every other meal on a banana leaf there. Vijayan Kannampilly’s The Essential Kerala Cookbook is a great companion to it.