Healthful Indian Flavors with Alamelu

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| image = Healthful Indian Flavors with Alamelu.jpg

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| genre = Cooking show

| creator = Alamelu Vairavan

| director = Jack Abrams

| presenter = Alamelu Vairavan

| country = United States

| language = English

| num_seasons = 2

| num_episodes = 19

| runtime = 28 minutes per episode

| company = Milwaukee Public Television

| executive_producer = Raul Galvan

| producer = Jack Abrams

| editor = Jeff Moorbeck

| first_aired = {{Start date|2010|05|15}}

| last_aired = {{End date|2012|04|06}}

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Healthful Indian Flavors with Alamelu is an Indian cooking television program produced by Milwaukee Public Television in the United States. It is hosted by Alamelu Vairavan, with occasional dietetic and nutritional commentary by Margaret Pfeiffer, a registered dietitian and expert in preventive cardiology.[http://www5.uwm.edu/news/2012/02/21/vairavan/ The aroma of success] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130305173857/http://www5.uwm.edu/news/2012/02/21/vairavan/ |date=2013-03-05 }} University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, 2012-02-21. It was first broadcast on PBS in May 2010.

Vairavan was born and raised in the town of Kandanur[http://www.nagarathargateway.com/article_interview_detail.php?article_id=33 Interview With Thiru Alamelu Vairavan] Nagarathargateway.com, 2012-04-19. in the Chettinad region of Tamil Nadu in South India.Healthy South Indian Cooking. Alamelu Vairavan (2001). New York: Hippocrene Books. p. 7. {{ISBN|0-7818-0867-7}}. She married K. Vairavan and moved to the United States at the age of 18 in 1967, and learned how to cook from her aunt and uncle's professional Chettinad chef, Nedungudi Natesan, in New York. She earned a degree in Health Information Management at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1983. She has two children, a son Ashok and a daughter Valli. Vairavan works to promote healthy cooking and eating to the American public.[http://www.mptv.org/localshows/alamelu/ Healthful Indian Flavors with Alamelu] Milwaukee Public Television. Retrieved: 2013-02-07. Her show can be seen currently on the PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) channel Create TV.