Kalavai Keerai—or, a Guide to Wild Tamil Greens

Kalavai keerai or kalava-keerai if you say it fast enough] is pure native genius. Here’s why. It’s not just an assemblage of greens, it’s a way of making a whole meal out of what’s around to eat them in appropriately small medicinal doses. When you have nothing in store to cook with, there will always be wild greens to forage