The video begins with a man placing a circular steel plate on a banana leaf and using a sharp object to cut the leaf into a round plate shape. Read Time: 2 min If you've ever visited a traditional ...

Walk into any South Indian celebration — a wedding, a temple festival, a community feast — and chances are, lunch isn’t served on ceramic or steel. It arrives on a bright green banana leaf, neatly ...

On a sunny noon, business is as usual at this food stall near Natesan Park. By 12.30 pm, the regular customers have started crowding around the push cart for a hot plate of variety rice served on a ...