Alamelu Vairavan is an enthusiastic advocate for preparing food that is both tasty and healthy using spices and legumes. You can discover Alamelu's passion for cooking and sharing healthful foods by visiting her website: www.curryonwheels.com. Most recently, Alamelu teamed up with Registered Dietitian, Margaret Peiffer and published a book, "Indian Inspired Gluten Free Cooking"(May, 2013, Hippocrene Books.)Alamelu's popular cooking TV series titled, "Healthful Indian Flavors with Alamelu," produced by Milwaukee Public Television(MPTV), has been aired on Public Television in Wisconsin and in many parts of the U.S. since 2010. This TV series is being broadcast nationally on PBS CREATE. Please check your local PBS station schedule for the time and dates. (Previous episodes can be seen via www.mptv.org ).In her cookbooks and TV presentations, Alamelu emphasizes easy to prepare aromatic and flavorful foods. The Los Angeles Times, for example, has referred to her recipes as, "coconut-infused curries, brilliant vegetable dishes", and has noted "what could be complex becomes relatively simple in Vairavan's approach."In 2009, Alamelu presented a sold-out workshop, titled, "Enticing Indian Falvors" at the James Beard Foundation, in Manhattan, New York for which she received recognition of "outstanding contribution" from the foundation. Alamelu has also been regularly featured as a celebrity chef at the Annual Kohler Food & Wine event in Kohler, Wisconsin and in Dine and Wine Wisconsin event in MIlwaukee. She has also made culinary presentations in Scottsdale, AZ. Alamelu has also offered wellness and team-building programs to many corporations. She also makes time for numerous community programs in schools, libraries, hospital outreach programs and in community centers.Alamelu has authored or co-authored several cookbooks. She has also contributed recipes to the book, "Healing Spices" by Dr. Bharat Aggarwal (a cancer research scientist at M.D. Anderson Cancer Care Center)that was published in 2011. Also in 2011, she published a book, "Chettinad Kitchen: Food and Flavours from South India" that highlights the famous cuisine from the Chettinad region of South India. If you think kids have difficulty enjoying vegetables think again! Alamelu offers simple and easy to follow recipes that result in aromatic and flavorful foods. Kids will find the vegetable dishes irresistble. Even vegetable haters will be tranformed to vegetable lovers. In her books, she also presents deliclious non-vegetarian recipes and flavored rice dishes.Alamelu can be contacted through her website: www.curryonwheels.com. She also maintains a blog (Spice of Life) on www.whitefishbaynow.com .