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'''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>
'''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 | archive-date=22 June 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150622174353/https://www.keralatourism.org/leadinglights/padmashree-thangam-e-philip/22 | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Encyclopaedia of women biography">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wZMrAQAAIAAJ&q=Thangam+E.+Philip | 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="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 | archive-date=22 June 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150622212645/http://news.webindia123.com/news/Articles/India/20090128/1163197.html | url-status=dead }}</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 | archive-date=15 October 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | url-status=dead }}</ref>


==Biography==
==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" />
Thangam Philip was born on 12 May 1921 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 | work=The Hindu | date=29 January 2009 | access-date=22 June 2015}}</ref> After graduating from the [[Women's Christian College, Chennai]], she secured a [[Postgraduate education|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|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 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" />
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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" />
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" />
Returning to her native place after retirement in 1986,<ref name="Nutritionist Thangam Philip passes away" /> she continued her research from her home in [[Pallom]], in the [[Kottayam district]] of Kerala.<ref name="Padmashree Thangam E. Philip" /> Thangam Philip, who remained unmarried throughout her life,<ref name="Thangam Philip dead" /> died on 28 January 2009, at the age of 87, of 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==
==Awards and honours==
[[File:FAO CERES Philip Silver Obverse.jpg|thumb|FAO CERES Philip Silver Obverse]]
[[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" />
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="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==
==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 1)''<ref name="Modern Cookery: For Teaching and the Trade (Volume 1)">{{cite book | 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>
* ''Modern Cookery: For Teaching and the Trade (Volume 2)''<ref name="Modern Cookery: For Teaching and the Trade (Volume 2) ">{{cite book | 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>
* ''A Touch Of Spice''<ref name="A Touch Of Spice">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iPl5AAAACAAJ | 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>
* ''The Thangam Philip Book Of Baking''<ref name="The Thangam Philip Book Of Baking">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Iofu3YWCToUC | 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>
* ''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?id=AAhrMhukGeMC | title=Thangam Philip's Vegetarian Recipes for Healthy Living | publisher=Orient Blackswan | author=Thangam Philip | year=2011 | pages=278 | isbn=9788125037385}}</ref>


==See also==
==See also==
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[[Category:20th-century Indian educational theorists]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian educational theorists]]
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[[Category:20th-century Indian women educational theorists]]
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[[Category:Scholars from Kerala]]
[[Category:Women educators from Kerala]]
[[Category:Women educators from Kerala]]
[[Category:Educators from Kerala]]
[[Category:Educators from Kerala]]
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Thangam Philip
Born(1921-05-12)12 May 1921
Died28 January 2009(2009-01-28) (aged 87)
Resting placeSt. Andrew's CSI Church, Pannimattom, Kottayam, Kerala, India
9°32′2″N 76°31′25″E / 9.53389°N 76.52361°E / 9.53389; 76.52361
OccupationNutritionist, writer
Known forHospitality education
Parent(s)T. P. Philip
Elizabeth Philip
AwardsPadma Shri
FAO Ceres Medal
Knighthood of the Order of Cordon Bleu Du Sant Esprit
Firestone Award

Thangam Elizabeth Philip (1921–2009) was an Indian nutritionist and a pioneer of hospitality education in India.[1][2] She was the Principal Emeritus of the Institute of Hotel Management, Mumbai[3][4] and was the author of several books on cookery.[5] A recipient of the FAO Ceres Medal[6] and the Knighthood of the Order of Cordon Bleu Du Sant Esprit of France,[7] Philip was awarded the fourth highest Indian civilian award of Padma Shri by the Government of India in 1976.[8]

Biography[edit | edit source]

Thangam Philip was born on 12 May 1921 at Kozhikode in the south Indian state of Kerala in a central Travancore family[1] by name, Thevarthundiyil, to T. P. Philip and Elizabeth Philip.[9] 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.[1][9] 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 Southland Methodist College to establish a Home Economic department at the college.[1]

Philip returned to India in 1950 and accepted the invitation of the Ministry of Agriculture to manage one of the cafeterias under the brand name, Annapurna, where subsidized food was served to the middle class.[1] Five years later, she shifted to Mumbai and joined the Institute of Hotel Management, Catering Technology and Applied Nutrition (IHM) when the college was established in 1955.[1] She also did radio and television programmes and visited US where her programmes were telecast.[1] In 1961, after her return from US, she was appointed as the principal of IHM.[1] 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,[10] Thangam Philip also joined the campaign[7][11] and participated in the inaugural Young World Assembly held in Athens in 1965.[1]

Philip was the author of several books on cookery and hospitality industry.[5][11] Her two volume work, Modern Book for Teaching and the Trade, is a prescribed textbook[3][5][11] in IHM curriculum.[1] One of her books, Thangam Philip's Book of Baking is a work written for the Ministry of Tourism.[1] She also involved as a consultant with several projects of UNDP, Food and Agriculture Organization, International Labour Organization and the Government of Kuwait.[1] She served on the boards of many hospitality enterprises and organizations such as Air India, Indian Institute of Tourism and Travel Management,[12] Sterling Holiday Resorts (India) Limited and Kamat Hotels.[3] She was also a member of the Remuneration Committee and Member of Shareholders’ Grievance Committee of the Kamat Hotel group.[12]

Returning to her native place after retirement in 1986,[5] she continued her research from her home in Pallom, in the Kottayam district of Kerala.[1] Thangam Philip, who remained unmarried throughout her life,[9] died on 28 January 2009, at the age of 87, of cardiac arrest which followed related illnesses at a nursing home in Kottayam.[3] Her body was buried at St. Andrew's CSI Church cemetery at Pannimattom, Kottayam.[9]

Awards and honours[edit | edit source]

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[3][12] and served as a member of the Royal Society for Public Health, UK.[1][12] The Food and Agriculture Organization selected her in 1975 to be honoured with the portrayal on the FAO Ceres Medal, a commemorative medal issued with the recipient's image.[3][6] The next year, she received the civilian honour of Padma Shri from the Government of India.[8] The Government of France awarded her the Knighthood of the Order of Cordon Bleu Du Sant Esprit in 1982.[7][11] Four years later, she retired from IHM[1] after which she was made the principal emeritus of the college.[3][9] She was also a recipient of the Firestone Award from the Indian Association of Occupational Health.[3][12]

Bibliography[edit | edit source]

  • Modern Cookery: For Teaching and the Trade (Volume 1)[13]
  • Modern Cookery: For Teaching and the Trade (Volume 2)[14]
  • A Touch Of Spice[15]
  • The Thangam Philip Book Of Baking[16]
  • Thangam Philip’s Vegetarian Recipes for Healthy Living[17]

See also[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 "Padmashree Thangam E. Philip". Kerala Tourism, Government of Kerala. 2015. Archived from the original on 22 June 2015. Retrieved 22 June 2015.
  2. Nagendra Kr Singh (2001). Encyclopaedia of women biography. A.P.H. Pub. Corp. ISBN 9788176482646. Retrieved 22 June 2015.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 "Obituary". Hospitality Biz India. 2015. Retrieved 22 June 2015.
  4. "The Institute". Institute of Hotel Management. 2015. Retrieved 22 June 2015.
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 "Nutritionist Thangam Philip passes away". Web India News. 28 January 2009. Archived from the original on 22 June 2015. Retrieved 22 June 2015.
  6. 6.0 6.1 "FAO Ceres Medal". Food and Agriculture Organization. 2015. Archived from the original on 6 June 2016. Retrieved 22 June 2015.
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 "Tellicherry Pepper Chicken - Succulent Chicken with Pepper, Spices & aromatic Kari leaves". Weave a Thousand Flavors. 2015. Archived from the original on 28 October 2019. Retrieved 22 June 2015.
  8. 8.0 8.1 "Padma Shri" (PDF). Padma Shri. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 October 2015. Retrieved 18 June 2015.
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 "Thangam Philip dead". The Hindu. 29 January 2009. Retrieved 22 June 2015.
  10. "Freedom from hunger campaign". FAO. 2015. Retrieved 22 June 2015.
  11. 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 "Thangam E Philip - Express Travel World". Express Travel World. 2015. Retrieved 22 June 2015.
  12. 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 "Thangam Elizabeth Philip Bloomberg bio". Bloomberg. 2015. Retrieved 22 June 2015.
  13. Thangam E. Philip (2010). Modern Cookery: For Teaching and the Trade (Volume 1). Orient Blackswan. p. 920. ISBN 978-8125040446.
  14. Thangam E. Philip (2010). Modern Cookery: For Teaching and the Trade (Volume 2). Orient Blackswan. p. 776. ISBN 978-8125040453.
  15. Thangam E. Philip (1993). A Touch Of Spice. Sangam Books. p. 116. ISBN 9780863112591.
  16. Thangam Philip (1994). The Thangam Philip Book Of Baking. Orient Blackswan. p. 116. ISBN 9788125015000.
  17. Thangam Philip (2011). Thangam Philip's Vegetarian Recipes for Healthy Living. Orient Blackswan. p. 278. ISBN 9788125037385.