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Kerala promotes Budget Travel with Jet2Kerala

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June 21st, 2009

In Kerala,  Tourism is a major source of revenue and our Government is taking all the right steps to bring in tourists from across the country with budget in their minds.
The campaign called Jet2Kerala is a partnership with Jet Airways and Kerala Tourism Department and they have created new travel packages for travellers within India who are looking to visit Kerala on cheaper and affordable rates.

According to the official site:

Jet2Kerala is an innovative joint promotion to make Kerala, renowned as God’s Own Country, more accessible to holidayers through holiday packages at never-before rates including highly discounted two way airfares on Jet Airways to the three gateway cities of Trivandrum, Cochin and Calicut from anywhere in India.

With this deal you can get a packaged deal which has everything from your flight tickets, pickup and drop at airports, sightseeing and staying in luxurious hotels in a single bindle. This will not only remove all your travel related headaches and it will be more affordable than paying for these individually.
If you are a travel freak and want to know more about this new innovative campaign, click here. It will be fun to see what type of offers Kerala Govt. will have to promote tourism in Kannur once our very own airport comes out.

Literary camp to begin tomorrow

 A three-day literary camp for young writers organised by the Kerala Sahithya Akademi will be held at Parassinikkadavu here from December 18.
Addressing a press conference here on Thursday, the organisers of the event said Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan would inaugurate the camp. They said 140 young writers and nearly 125 noted writers would attend the camp, being organised to encourage young writers.
Akademi chairperson P. Valsala will preside over the inaugural function. Writers and literary critics will conduct classes on language, Malayalam literary history, Malayalam drama, poetry, literature in cyber space, narrative techniques, literature and secularism, etc.

Roads to be repaired by month-end: Minister

Public Works Minister M. Vijayakumar said here on Thursday that all damaged roads in the State would be repaired by the month-end.
Addressing a district-level crisis management review meeting at the Collectorate here on Thursday, he said instructions had been given to complete all repairs on roads. A sum of Rs.718 crore had been allocated by the government for road repairs. The works would be completed on a war footing, he said.
Announcing that the tender period was extended to 14 days, the Minister said works estimated up to Rs.2 crore would be sanctioned at the district level. He also announced that the government had sanctioned a Rs.399-crore project to upgrade the existing roads. The quality control maintenance and vigilance mechanisms of the PWD would be strengthened, Mr. Vijayakumar said.
The review meeting also discussed development of access roads to the Kannur airport site and maintenance of roads to tourism destinations. He discussed with officials the progress of the construction of 28 bridges.

VS to lay stone for kannur airport today

 


Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan will lay the foundation stone for the Kannur International Airport at the project site near Mattannur on Friday.
Since the airport is a longstanding dream of the people here, elaborate arrangements have been made for the stone-laying function. Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel will preside.
A helipad has been arranged at the ground of the PRNSS College at Mattannur for the arrival of Mr. Patel on Friday morning. The venue has facilities to accommodate around 10,000 people.
The function will be held at 11 a.m. Minister of State for Home Mullappally Ramachandran will inaugurate the construction of the perimeter wall of the project site. Minister of State for Railways E. Ahamed will release the logo of the airport project.

Frozen Pudding Pops

Ingredients

• 2 cups low-fat or skim milk
• 1 small box of instant pudding

Directions

Prepare pudding according to package directions. Freeze in pop molds or spoon into small paper cups and insert popsicle sticks or plastic spoons. Place in freezer until solid.

BAKERY INDUSTRY _ Thalassery

It is the tradition of malayalees that they accept any new ideas coming from overseas wholeheartedly extending both their hands. They have shown courage to experiment even in their food habits adapting to new styles. Instead of the traditional puttu, iddali and dosa, many of them have brought bread and jam to the breakfast table. Instead of serving the traditional ‘palada pradaman’ for the birthday parties, the practice of cake cutting is widely adopted.

The credit of introducing a new variety of food item into the inventory of tastes of Malayalee goes to Mambally Bakery in Thalassery. The bakery started Mambally Bappu at Thalassery in 1880 have grown into become a Bakery establishment with its roots all over Kerala now.

It was in 1880, the period when no one dared to speak a word against the wishes of the British. On the Chistmas evening in 1880, a guest came to their biscuit factory at Thalassery. It was Mr. Bown, a British planter from the cinnamon plantation at Randu Thara in Ancharakkandy. He came with a piece of cake and asked Bappu to prepare similar one.

Bappu was seeing the cake for the first time. He had no idea of about its ingredients. The English man told him about the ingredients. Within a short time, Bappu’s culinary skills did its wonders. When the English man left the Royal biscuits shop he had given orders for a dozen cakes

Malayalis tasted the sweetness of cakes for the first time from, the Mamballi’s Royal Biscuit Factory, the first bakery establishment in Kerala.

It was Mambally Bappu’s eldest son Gopalan who started Modern bakery at ‘Mittai Street’ at Kozhikode.

Mambally Family took the bakery business further from Kozhikode to Thiruvithamkoor.  M.P. Karunakaran, cousin of Mambally Gopalan and brother in law Kanari jointly started Cochin Bakery at Canon shed road in 1939. Though there were some bakeries at Cochin on those days, the bakery items were not popular among the people of Cochin. Cochin Bakery however transformed the food styles of the people in Cochin. On those days, Cochin Raja’s car which came to Ernakulam for collecting ‘The Hindu’ news paper used to return with bread bought from Cochin Bakery.

Even from the Palace of Mysore King, people were sent to bring bakery items from Cochin Bakery. There is no need of searching for several testimonies to highlight the fame Thalassery secured in the field of Bakery art. The King of Cochin used to instruct that the items made out of fine quality flour rationed out to the Bakery should be reserved for their exclusive use. They used to receive orders from France for supply of breads aboard before the French Ships set out their journey to Cochin.

                                                                                                           
There were no star hotels in Cochin on those days and the owners of Cochin Bakery therefore got the honour of conducting parties for three Viceroys including Lord Mountbatten.

In 1940s Kanari reached Trivandrum with the fame of Thalassery bakery. He started the ‘Santha’ Bakery at Pulimoodu Junction. Later it was handed over to M.P. Krishnan, son of Mamballi Gopalan.

The fame of Thalassery bakery thereafter reached Nagarcoil. Here the bakery is still operating under the name Tops Bakery.

Thereafter they started Best Bakery at Kottayam on 15th November 1944. Thereafter establishments were opened at Changanassery, Thiruvalla, Chengannur under the brand name Best Bakery. The last bakery in the chain of bakeries was established at Kannur, near the railway station which completed a full circle in the long journey of establishing bakeries by the Mamballi’s.

Mamballi’s were very much particular about the quality of their Bakery products. These people from Thalassery however, did not attempt to produce their products in large numbers and commercially distribute under their brand name which finally resulted in gradual loss of their fame in this modern world.

mambaram river

 

MAMBARAM   PUZHA

THALASSERY KADAL PAALAM

                                                         KADAL PAALAM

thalassery city center

 

city center thalassery