Onam Sadya: One Festival, Two Plates – How Kerala’s Feast Splits Between South and North
When most outsiders think of Onam, they imagine the iconic sadya — 20+ curries, chutneys, payasams, all strictly vegetarian, neatly laid out on a banana leaf. But here’s the shocker: the Onam feast is not uniform across Kerala. In fact, what a Malayali eats for Onam depends entirely on whether...