| The original Amma started started this web site in 1996. Her advice and recipes have always been authentic,
culled from the mind of an authentic "Amma." "Amma" in South India
(and many other parts of Asia) means "mother."
Amma started the website as a recipe site, featuring weekly recipes which she learned from her Amma, who learned them from her Amma -- and so on for centuries. "The key to good cooking," says Amma, "is the desire to see other people enjoy your food." |
 A sketch of Amma's Amma, around 1967. |
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 It took over a year to record and then translate the recipes from Telugu (above) into English. Click on the image for a larger picture. |
The site also includes over 40,000 recipes, on-line shopping for Ammas-approved products, Amma's on-line school, complete nutritional data, and a searchable database of hundreds of thousands of tips. For the latest information about Amma in the press, click here.
Amma was born in a small village (by Indian
standards) near Vijayawada, in the South
Indian State of Andhra Pradesh. Many people are surprised to learn that
a housewife from a remote Indian village -- a women who married before
completing secondary school -- could make such a global impression through
the Internet.
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In fact, Amma comes from a long line of powerful women, known
for their strength both in and outside the kitchen. Her grandmother ("Ammama")
was a freedom fighter and revolutionary. She is especially remembered
for her efforts to protect women's rights. Amma's Amma was also a devout Gandhian who would sometimes travel 300 kilometers by bullock cart to attend Gandhi-ji's political gatherings. She was also well-known for her Kalagoora Pulusu (mixed vegetables in tamarind sauce) and dry fish or mutton curries which she would prepare for the field hands during the rice-threshing season (known as Kuppalu).
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Map source: The Concise Columbia Encyclopedia Columbia University Press, Copyright © 1995.  |
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| "My mother was the strongest person I've ever known," says Amma. "She
showed me that strength is about character, and that no other occupation
in the world demands as much strength, wisdom, courage, discipline and
the qualities of leadership as motherhood. Except, perhaps, grandmotherhood."
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