Mr and Mrs Meenakshi-mami: The cutest couple in the world of pickles :- Vedapuri Subramaniam is a lean, wiry, young entrepreneur of 76. His wife Meenakshi, turns 70 this year. Their day usually begins before sunrise at about 5am and winds up at about 10.30pm. "Yes, I do get tired," says Subramaniam, with a touch of defiance, "but I don't care. I don't call this my home. This is my factory." A large part of his Navi Mumbai residence has been turned into a processing unit of sorts. Rows of large, cylindrical plastic cans, filled with pickles, have been lined up.
"We made avakaya pickle just last week," says Meenakshi. The Andhra avakaya pickle has to be stirred every day for at least six weeks. The stirring bit is Subramaniam's responsibility, while his wife checks for taste. "It's almost like how guests at a wedding tell the host that the sambar needs a dash of salt, or the rasam is too tangy so some water can be added to adjust its taste," says Meenakshi.
Subramaniam left his home town Nagapattinam in Tamil Nadu in the mid-1950s to work in the food manufacturing industry in Mumbai, and supplied ingredients to various companies that made pickles and ready-to-eat foods for close to four decades. "If you see how some of the biggest companies make pickles, you wouldn't want to eat them," he says. "This is why I ensure that cleanliness is the most important aspect of my pickle-making."
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His wife Meenakshi, after whom their website is named
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