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{{Infobox person
| name = Thangam Philip
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1921|5|12|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Kozhikode]], [[Kerala]], India
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2009|1|28|1921|5|12|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Pallom]], [[Kottayam]], [[Kerala]], India
| restingplace = St. Andrew's CSI Church, Pannimattom, [[Kottayam]], [[Kerala]], India
| restingplacecoordinates = {{Coord|9|32|2|N|76|31|25|E|}}
| othername =
| occupation = Nutritionist, writer
| yearsactive =
| known for = Hospitality education
| spouse =
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| children =
| parents = T. P. Philip<br>Elizabeth Philip
| website =
| awards = [[Padma Shri]]<br>[[Food and Agriculture Organization|FAO]] Ceres Medal<br>Knighthood of the Order of Cordon Bleu Du Sant Esprit<br>Firestone Award
}}

'''Thangam Elizabeth Philip''' (1921–2009) was an Indian [[nutritionist]] and a pioneer of hospitality education in India.<ref name="Padmashree Thangam E. Philip">{{cite web | url=https://www.keralatourism.org/leadinglights/padmashree-thangam-e-philip/22 | title=Padmashree Thangam E. Philip | publisher=Kerala Tourism, Government of Kerala | date=2015 | access-date=22 June 2015}}</ref><ref name="Encyclopaedia of women biography">{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wZMrAQAAIAAJ&q=Thangam+E.+Philip&dq=Thangam+E.+Philip&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Nc2HVdCdEYKu7Aa-6bmABQ&ved=0CDUQ6AEwBjgK | title=Encyclopaedia of women biography | publisher=A.P.H. Pub. Corp | date=2001 | access-date=22 June 2015 | author=Nagendra Kr Singh | ISBN=9788176482646}}</ref> She was the Principal Emeritus of the [[Institute of Hotel Management, Catering Technology and Applied Nutrition, Mumbai|Institute of Hotel Management, Mumbai]]<ref name="Obituary">{{cite web | url=http://www.hospitalitybizindia.com/events/obituary/obituary.htm | title=Obituary | publisher=Hospitality Biz India | date=2015 | access-date=22 June 2015}}</ref><ref name="The Institute">{{cite web | url=http://www.ihmctan.edu/the-institute.html | title=The Institute | publisher=Institute of Hotel Management | date=2015 | access-date=22 June 2015}}</ref> and was the author of several books on [[cookery]].<ref name="About this author - GoodReads">{{cite web | url=https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1759991.Thangam_E_Philip | title=About this author - GoodReads | publisher=GoodReads | date=2015 | access-date=22 June 2015}}</ref><ref name="Nutritionist Thangam Philip passes away">{{cite web | url=http://news.webindia123.com/news/Articles/India/20090128/1163197.html | title=Nutritionist Thangam Philip passes away | publisher=Web India News | date=28 January 2009 | access-date=22 June 2015}}</ref> A recipient of the ''[[Food and Agriculture Organization|FAO]] Ceres Medal''<ref name="FAO Ceres Medal">{{cite web | url=http://fao-coins.info/fao-4a.html | title=FAO Ceres Medal | publisher=Food and Agriculture Organization | date=2015 | access-date=22 June 2015 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160606153243/http://fao-coins.info/fao-4a.html | archive-date=6 June 2016 }}</ref> and the Knighthood of the [[Order of the Holy Spirit|Order of Cordon Bleu Du Sant Esprit]] of France,<ref name="Tellicherry Pepper Chicken - Succulent Chicken with Pepper, Spices & aromatic Kari leaves">{{cite web | url=http://www.weavethousandflavors.com/2010/06/tellicherry-malabar-pepper-chicken-southern-india.html | title=Tellicherry Pepper Chicken - Succulent Chicken with Pepper, Spices & aromatic Kari leaves | publisher=Weave a Thousand Flavors | date=2015 | access-date=22 June 2015 | archive-date=28 October 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191028145123/https://www.weavethousandflavors.com/2010/06/tellicherry-malabar-pepper-chicken-southern-india.html | url-status=dead }}</ref> Philip was awarded the fourth highest Indian civilian award of [[Padma Shri]] by the [[Government of India]] in 1976.<ref name="Padma Shri">{{cite web | url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | title=Padma Shri | publisher=Padma Shri | date=2015 | access-date=18 June 2015}}</ref>

==Biography==
Thangam Philip was born on 12 May 1921<ref name="About this author - GoodReads" /> at [[Kozhikode]] in the south Indian state of [[Kerala]] in a [[central Travancore]] family<ref name="Padmashree Thangam E. Philip" /> by name, ''Thevarthundiyil'', to T. P. Philip and Elizabeth Philip.<ref name="Thangam Philip dead">{{cite web | url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-kerala/thangam-philip-dead/article385025.ece | title=Thangam Philip dead | publisher=The Hindu | date=29 January 2009 | access-date=22 June 2015}}</ref> After graduating from the [[Women's Christian College, Chennai]], she secured a post graduate diploma from the [[Lady Irwin College]], Delhi and secured a master's degree (MS) from USA.<ref name="Padmashree Thangam E. Philip" /><ref name="Thangam Philip dead" /> She started her career by joining the faculty of home science at [[St Thomas School, Kolkata]] where she worked for a short time before moving to Sri Lanka in 1949 to work at [[Southlands College, Galle|Southland Methodist College]] to establish a ''Home Economic department'' at the college.<ref name="Padmashree Thangam E. Philip" />

Philip returned to India in 1950 and accepted the invitation of the [[Ministry of Agriculture (India)|Ministry of Agriculture]] to manage one of the cafeterias under the brand name, ''Annapurna'', where subsidized food was served to the middle class.<ref name="Padmashree Thangam E. Philip" /> Five years later, she shifted to Mumbai and joined the [[Institute of Hotel Management, Catering Technology and Applied Nutrition, Mumbai|Institute of Hotel Management, Catering Technology and Applied Nutrition]] (IHM) when the college was established in 1955.<ref name="Padmashree Thangam E. Philip" /> She also did radio and television programmes and visited US where her programmes were telecast.<ref name="Padmashree Thangam E. Philip" /> In 1961, after her return from US, she was appointed as the principal of IHM.<ref name="Padmashree Thangam E. Philip" /> She also started writing articles in the periodicals and opened a cookery programme at the [[All India Radio]]. When the [[Food and Agriculture Organization]] launched the ''Freedom from Hunger'' campaign in 1963,<ref name="Freedom from hunger campaign">{{cite web | url=http://www.fao.org/docrep/f3200e/f3200e01.htm | title=Freedom from hunger campaign | publisher=FAO | date=2015 | access-date=22 June 2015}}</ref> Thangam Philip also joined the campaign<ref name="Tellicherry Pepper Chicken - Succulent Chicken with Pepper, Spices & aromatic Kari leaves" /><ref name="Thangam E Philip - Express Travel World" /> and participated in the inaugural Young World Assembly held in Athens in 1965.<ref name="Padmashree Thangam E. Philip" />

Philip was the author of several books on cookery and hospitality industry.<ref name="Nutritionist Thangam Philip passes away" /><ref name="Thangam E Philip - Express Travel World">{{cite web | url=http://archivetravel.financialexpress.com/20100315/management09.shtml | title=Thangam E Philip - Express Travel World | publisher=Express Travel World | date=2015 | access-date=22 June 2015}}</ref> Her two volume work, ''Modern Book for Teaching and the Trade'', is a prescribed textbook<ref name="Obituary" /><ref name="Nutritionist Thangam Philip passes away" /><ref name="Thangam E Philip - Express Travel World" /> in IHM curriculum.<ref name="Padmashree Thangam E. Philip" /> One of her books, ''Thangam Philip's Book of Baking'' is a work written for the [[Ministry of Tourism (India)|Ministry of Tourism]].<ref name="Padmashree Thangam E. Philip" /> She also involved as a consultant with several projects of [[UNDP]], [[Food and Agriculture Organization]], [[International Labour Organization]] and the [[Government of Kuwait]].<ref name="Padmashree Thangam E. Philip" /> She served on the boards of many hospitality enterprises and organizations such as [[Air India]], [[Indian Institute of Tourism and Travel Management]],<ref name="Thangam Elizabeth Philip Bloomberg bio">{{cite web | url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=24421030&ticker=KHI:IN&previousCapId=20346347&previousTitle=Kamat%2520Hotels%2520(India)%2520Ltd | title=Thangam Elizabeth Philip Bloomberg bio | publisher=Bloomberg | date=2015 | access-date=22 June 2015}}</ref> [[Sterling Holiday Resorts (India) Limited]] and [[Kamat Hotels]].<ref name="Obituary" /> She was also a member of the Remuneration Committee and Member of Shareholders’ Grievance Committee of the Kamat Hotel group.<ref name="Thangam Elizabeth Philip Bloomberg bio" />

Returning to her native place after retirement in 1986,<ref name="Nutritionist Thangam Philip passes away" /> she continued her researches from her home in [[Pallom]], in [[Kottayam district]] of Kerala.<ref name="Padmashree Thangam E. Philip" /> Thangam Philip, who remained a spinster throughout her life,<ref name="Thangam Philip dead" /> died on 28 January 2009,<ref name="About this author - GoodReads" /> at the age of 87, succumbing to a cardiac arrest which followed related illnesses at a nursing home in Kottayam.<ref name="Obituary" /> Her body was buried at St. Andrew's CSI Church cemetery at Pannimattom, Kottayam.<ref name="Thangam Philip dead" />

==Awards and honours==
[[File:FAO CERES Philip Silver Obverse.jpg|thumb|FAO CERES Philip Silver Obverse]]
Philip was a fellow of the Hotel Catering and Institutional Management Association, UK as well as the Cookery and Food Association, UK<ref name="Obituary" /><ref name="Thangam Elizabeth Philip Bloomberg bio" /> and served as a member of the [[Royal Society for Public Health]], UK.<ref name="Padmashree Thangam E. Philip" /><ref name="Thangam Elizabeth Philip Bloomberg bio" /> The [[Food and Agriculture Organization]] selected her in 1975 to be honoured with the portrayal on the [[FAO of The UN|FAO]] Ceres Medal, a commemorative medal issued with the recipient's image.<ref name="Obituary" /><ref name="FAO Ceres Medal" /> The next year, she received the civilian honour of [[Padma Shri]] from the [[Government of India]].<ref name="Padma Shri" /> The [[Government of France]] awarded her the Knighthood of the Order of ''Cordon Bleu Du Sant Esprit'' in 1982.<ref name="Tellicherry Pepper Chicken - Succulent Chicken with Pepper, Spices & aromatic Kari leaves" /><ref name="Thangam E Philip - Express Travel World" /> Four years later, she retired from IHM<ref name="Padmashree Thangam E. Philip" /> after which she was made the principal emeritus of the college.<ref name="Obituary" /><ref name="About this author - GoodReads" /><ref name="Thangam Philip dead" /> She was also a recipient of the ''Firestone Award'' from the Indian Association of Occupational Health.<ref name="Obituary" /><ref name="Thangam Elizabeth Philip Bloomberg bio" />

==Bibliography==
* ''Modern Cookery: For Teaching and the Trade (Volume 1)''<ref name="Modern Cookery: For Teaching and the Trade (Volume 1)">{{cite book | url=https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Cookery-Teaching-Trade-Volume/dp/8125040447 | title=Modern Cookery: For Teaching and the Trade (Volume 1) | publisher=Orient Blackswan | author=Thangam E. Philip | year=2010 | pages=920 | isbn=978-8125040446}}</ref>
* ''Modern Cookery: For Teaching and the Trade (Volume 2)''<ref name="Modern Cookery: For Teaching and the Trade (Volume 2) ">{{cite book | url=https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Cookery-Teaching-Trade-Volume/dp/8125040455 | title=Modern Cookery: For Teaching and the Trade (Volume 2) | publisher=Orient Blackswan | author=Thangam E. Philip | year=2010 | pages=776 | isbn=978-8125040453}}</ref>
* ''A Touch Of Spice''<ref name="A Touch Of Spice">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Touch_Of_Spice.html?id=iPl5AAAACAAJ&hl=en | title=A Touch Of Spice | publisher=Sangam Books | author=Thangam E. Philip | year=1993 | pages=116 | isbn=9780863112591}}</ref>
* ''The Thangam Philip Book Of Baking''<ref name="The Thangam Philip Book Of Baking">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Thangam_Philip_Book_Of_Baking.html?id=Iofu3YWCToUC&redir_esc=y | title=The Thangam Philip Book Of Baking | publisher=Orient Blackswan | author=Thangam Philip | year=1994 | pages=116 | isbn=9788125015000}}</ref>
* ''Thangam Philip’s Vegetarian Recipes for Healthy Living''<ref name="Thangam Philip’s Vegetarian Recipes for Healthy Living">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books/about/Thangam_Philip_s_Vegetarian_Recipes_for.html?id=AAhrMhukGeMC&redir_esc=y | title=Thangam Philip’s Vegetarian Recipes for Healthy Living | publisher=Orient Blackswan | author=Thangam Philip | year=2011 | pages=278 | isbn=9788125037385}}</ref>

==See also==
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* [[Institute of Hotel Management, Catering Technology and Applied Nutrition, Mumbai]]
* [[Indian Cook Books]]

==References==
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