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More About Me and Edible Garden Hi there! Edible Garden is maintained, authored, and obsessed over by me, Nags. I have a full-time job, (what feels like) a couple of part-time jobs and almost always a list of to-dos that longer than the Nile. All of this keeps me going though, and I enjoy every single bit of it. Well, most of the time, anyway. I am a Reddiar girl born in Nagercoil (where I only lived for the first 10 days of my life) and brought up in Kottayam, Kerala. My family has lived in Kerala for a couple of generations now but we are Telugu by origin and our cooking is a fantastic mix of Kerala food + South Tamil Nadu style cooking + a healthy mix of this and that thrown in. I know most blogs talk about how they started off blogging so I feel obliged to share my story too. Actually there's no story. One fine day I came across a food blog. I thought it was pretty cool. A month or so later, I had my own although I was barely cooking back then. A wedding, a husband, 2 relocations, a 10kg increase in weight, and almost 7 years later, I am cooking much more and enjoying it too. I got more interested in food photography, food styling, recipe development, restaurant reviews, blogging and a whole bunch of things which I never knew existed a few years back. It's changed my life, definitely for the better. I am originally from the beautiful town of Kottayam in Kerala, lived in Hyderabad for 2.5 years, Singapore for 5 years 3 months, and currently live in gorgeous Sydney. Sydney is a haven for fresh food lovers and has a lot of great markets and produce to cook with. I do have a full time with Google too. Yes, working with Google is every bit as great as they say and I am very happy with my full-time job. If I feel a compulsive need to bake something on a particular day and blog about it, I take a day off and do it.

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