Thangam Philip

[1][10] 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.

[13] Returning to her native place after retirement in 1986,[6] she continued her research from her home in Pallom, in the Kottayam district of Kerala.

[1] Thangam Philip, who remained unmarried throughout her life,[10] died on 28 January 2009,[5] at the age of 87, of cardiac arrest which followed related illnesses at a nursing home in Kottayam.