Kudumbashree food fest showcases Malabar culinary heritage

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Visitors illustration   a assortment  of cuisines astatine  the Kudumbashree-organised nutrient  festival successful  Kozhikode connected  December 19.

Visitors illustration a assortment of cuisines astatine the Kudumbashree-organised nutrient festival successful Kozhikode connected December 19. | Photo Credit: K. Ragesh

The ongoing nutrient festival and commercialized fair, organised by the Kudumbashree District Mission adjacent Lions Park astatine Kozhikode South Beach, is celebrating the affluent culinary practice of Malabar. The seaside venue welcomes visitors with stalls selling accepted dishes, snacks, combo meals, cakes, desserts, and a wide array of taste delicacies prepared by assorted Kudumbashree units crossed the district.

“Kudumbashree offers a captious selling level for grassroots entrepreneurs similar america who deficiency entree to mainstream retail spaces,” said Thesleena, a location baker who is retailing astatine the event.

Aimed astatine empowering small-scale sellers financially, the festival promotes micro-enterprise products done its dedicated stalls. A peculiar item of the fest is the scope of cakes and desserts prepared by the Kudumbashree Cafe grooming group.

In summation to nutrient stalls, commercialized hubs person been acceptable up astatine the fest for selling integrated and earthy products specified arsenic wood honey, reddish sanders, ginger coffee, existent indigo, and thenar candy.

​“The unsocial flavours person drawn visitors not lone from crossed the territory but from neighbouring districts arsenic well. Despite the dilatory start, we are hoping to big much customers successful the coming days,” said Neethu A., territory programme manager, Kudumbashree.

​By focussing connected microfinance and livelihood development, the Kudumbashree Mission aims to stimulate the section economical maturation of women entrepreneurs. It provides small-scale units with a selling abstraction to showcase their skills, helping them unafraid fiscal independency and execute a sustainable livelihood.

”Kudumbashree offers products with nary added preservatives, ensuring purity and earthy quality,” said Kavitha P.C., territory ngo coordinator.

​The festival is unfastened from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. until Sunday (December 21).

Published - December 19, 2025 08:45 p.m. IST

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