Elevated Simplicity’ is how best Chef Suresh Pillai’s style of cooking can be termed. There is a simple element to this explanation.
Chef Suresh Pillai never seems to forget his early days living on the shores of Kerala’s large fresh water Ashtamudi lake. In fact, he highlights his humble background whenever he gets an opportunity to do so.
Be it a Television interview, a radio talk show or a conversation with a journalist of a leading newspaper, he comes through as simple soul who discovered his passion for cooking early.
Not in any culinary institute or college, but in the kitchen fires of his home, surroundings and his hometown.
It is his simplicity and passion which has connected him to millions of fans across all ages and genres in Kerala, Bangalore, London and worldwide. Like a fascinating and continuously unfolding success story of the island boy who earned a space in every malayalee’s heart.
The way to anyone’s heart is through the stomach, would be how you rewrite the old saying when you watch Chef Suresh Pillai’s cooking on his sizzling instagram reels or facebook updates.
Unlike many moons ago, when women who left for foreign shores after their marriage, carrying with them a diary of their mother’s or grandmother’s Kerala cooking recipes, or jotting them down over telephone calls to them, now all they need is to watch Chef Pillai’s amazing video recipes online.
He has also become the last word on anything about cooking – be it the farming/sourcing of ingredients, the process and hygiene of cleaning and cutting them in homes or restaurants,to the way they need to be cooked best to avoid any mishaps.
If simplicity is his mainstay, then love would be his hallmark.
It’s the love that elevates his simplicity of cooking to amazingly tasteful levels.
