The Cookbook is journey across the stunning landscape of Kodagu into its villages, rice fields, scared groves, festivals, ancestral homes, and coffee plantations. It presents a vibrant and enduring culture through the lens of food. Kaveri Ponnapa has researched and written extensively on the culture and cuisine of Kodagu for almost three decades. Following her highly regarded work, The Vanishing Kodavas (Eminence 2013), she invites home cooks and readers to discover Kodava culinary traditions—many of which are shared by other groups of people who over time made Coorg their home—through more than one hundred recipes with easy-to-follow instructions.