Seventy-year-old Ummi Abdullah grew up in a large Moplah family where there was plenty of help to do the cooking. But Ummi had to learn the tricks of the trade when she married V. Abdulla.
The Malabar Muslim cookery expert from Calicut is here at the Moplah cuisine festival on till March 30 at Karavalli at the Taj Gateway, as part of an attempt to bring in renowned people from different coastal regions for its 15th year celebrations.