This study refers to practices, attitudes, and beliefs as well as the networks that encompasses the concepts of food ways, cuisine, and food system. It gives detailed study about the fundamentals about food, historical and current conditions shaping that a class’s relationship to food, and the ways in which the group of people use food to express identity, community, values, status, power, artistry and creativity. It also includes a groups’ definitions of what can be the possible dishes in a particular cuisine, what is delicious, healthy, and socially appropriate for specific subgroups or individuals and when, how, why, and with whom those dishes can be consumed. This study also depicts the different styles of meals served at various festivals or occasions. Rice, the staple food of Tamil Nadu, is used as the best example for describing the nutritional values and few other examples describing the daily source of immunity. A few dishes that have taken birth in Tamil Nadu that is later enhanced and modified in other states have also put forward in this study. © 2016, International Journal of Pharmacy and Technology. All rights reserved.