A kitchen is a very important part of a house. You have to eat to live and if you have to eat, you require a kitchen for cooking food. Visitors who enter the State of Kerala, in South India are not only amazed by its beauty but also experience the taste of delicious and spicy Kerala food.
In olden times, a majority of women in Kerala were confined within the four walls of their house, and since joint families were prominent in those days, the main job of the women was cooking for the large families. In those days the kitchens were not equipped with electrical appliances as today, as there was no electricity in many of the villages and both wet and dry grinding were done by hands in what was called the ‘aattukkal’ and ‘aammi’. Stoves were made of mud and wood and coconut husks were used to light the fire.