Gramiyaa

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Cold pressed oils for everyday cooking.

01/09/2026

There’s a reason Sibi is so particular about the oil.
And no, it’s not because he enjoys making everyone’s life harder. 😅

He likes knowing exactly what happens between a groundnut entering the mill and a pack leaving it.
So we took you behind the scenes to see what he sees ; the nuts, the pressing, the filtering, the testing, the packing… all under one roof.
Because when you make the oil yourself, “trust us” isn’t really the point.
You can just show people.

This is what goes into making Gramiyaa. And why Sibi is particular, so you don’t have to be. 💚

Our first Onam in our new home.We started with a little pooja for the new space, a moment to pause, be grateful, and wis...
27/08/2026

Our first Onam in our new home.

We started with a little pooja for the new space, a moment to pause, be grateful, and wish for all the good things we hope to build here.

Then came the important business: the Pookalam.

Our Operations team was up bright and early at KR Flower Market, bringing back flowers by the armful because apparently, a few flowers was never going to be enough.

Soon, everyone was involved. Picking, arranging, rearranging, debating colours (there were opinions), and watching a little patch of flowers slowly come together.

Then came the sarees, mundus, pattu pavadas and, of course, the photographs.

And finally, Sadhya.

Indian Coffee House brought the feast. We brought the appetite.

A very long banana leaf, a very full table and a team that suddenly had room for just one more serving.

Somewhere between the flowers, the food and all of us being together, our new office started feeling a little more like home.

Our first Onam here.
Hopefully, the first of many.

We’ve spent a long time being part of other people’s tables.It felt good to finally set one of our own. 🍽️For the past y...
21/08/2026

We’ve spent a long time being part of other people’s tables.
It felt good to finally set one of our own. 🍽️

For the past year, we’ve been part of supper clubs across India ; stepping into homes, meeting curious hosts, sharing meals and watching strangers become friends somewhere between the first course and the last.
Eventually, we started wondering:
What would a supper club look like if we hosted it at Gramiyaa?
So we opened the doors to our office.
For two evenings, the same tables where we spend our days building Gramiyaa became tables for eating, talking, making and sharing.

We brought together supper club hosts, food anthropologists, founders, brand creators and people who are simply curious about food.
The theme was simple: wood & oil.
Wood, because it is at the heart of how we make our oils.
Oil, because it quietly finds its way into almost every meal.

Seven vegetarian courses followed, each bringing our wood cold-pressed Coconut, Groundnut, Mustard and Sesame oils into the story in a different way.
There was a little making at the table too ; our own take on a pestle and mortar, inviting everyone to get their hands involved rather than simply sit back and watch.

And then there was From Our Tables a little recipe book filled with recipes gathered from the supper clubs we’ve been lucky enough to be part of, along with a recipe from our own table that evening.
Something to take home.
Something to cook.
Something to keep the table going.
Because Hosting with Gramiyaa was never meant to be a fixed format.

It’s a space for a good food idea, a curious theme, a chef’s point of view or a community to come together and ask:
What could we make of this?
Sometimes it might be a supper club.
Sometimes a recipe.
Sometimes just a new reason to gather around a table.

We’re interested in the ideas that make you want to cook, talk, taste and look at food a little differently.
And if you have one of those ideas, we’d love to hear it.
Hosting with Gramiyaa.

Come with an idea. Let’s make something worth sharing.

19/08/2026

Onam is supposed to smell like home.
So Reeshna brought home to Goa. 🌴🍍

No amma in the kitchen.
No banana-leaf feast waiting at home.
No family arguing over who gets the last bit of payasam.
Just Goa, a craving for Onam, and one very important decision:
If she couldn’t go home for Onam, she was going to cook her way back.

Starting with Pineapple Pulissery ; sweet, tangy, creamy, and made with the kind of coconut oil that makes the kitchen smell a little more like Kerala.

Not Kerala. Not home.
But one spoonful closer. 🤍
Happy Onam, wherever home finds you this year.

“First” sounded right. Until we asked what came second.Over the last few weeks, quite a few of you have asked us about s...
17/08/2026

“First” sounded right. Until we asked what came second.

Over the last few weeks, quite a few of you have asked us about something you’ve started seeing in our communication:
“Single Cold Pressed.”
So, here’s the story.

“First Cold Pressed” is a familiar term in the oil category. It refers to oil extracted through a first, low-temperature pressing, without putting the same seeds through further extraction cycles.

But we kept coming back to one simple question:
If we press our seeds only once, why call it “first”?
Because “first” naturally makes you wonder about a second. Or a third.

And at Gramiyaa, there isn’t one.
Our seeds go through one cold-pressing process. That’s how we’ve always made our oils.

So after many conversations as a team, we decided that “Single Cold Pressed” simply says it better.
Nothing about our process has changed.
We haven’t suddenly started doing things differently.
We’re just choosing words that describe what happens inside our mill a little more clearly.

And you may still see “First Cold Pressed” on many of our packs for a while. As we print new packaging, the wording will gradually change over the coming months.

For us, this isn’t about finding a newer or better-sounding term.
It’s about making the language on our pack match the process behind it.

14/08/2026

Before there was Gramiyaa, there was a family, an oil mill, and a boy who spent his summers running around it.

Years later, that same boy came back to build the business.

There have been plenty of twists since ; including a few honest opinions from home. 😅

In our first Q&A with Sibi, he talks about growing up around the mill, finding his way back to the family business, the struggles of building Gramiyaa, and the standards that have stayed with us through it all.

This is less of a founder interview and more of a conversation about where Gramiyaa comes from, and why we still care about the little things.

This is just a little taste.
Watch the full chat with Sibi on YouTube. Link in bio and stories.

11/08/2026

Turns out, “good enough” isn’t good enough for a groundnut. 🥜

Some make it into our mill.
A lot don’t.
Because the oil you press is only as good as what you choose to press in the first place.

Sibi’s groundnut standards might be a little… particular.
But when you’re making oil you’d put on your own table,
picky starts to feel pretty reasonable.

Gramiyaa. It just feels right.

04/08/2026

You probably never think about the box your oil comes in.
Until it starts leaking.

A small issue with a carton seal can hold up an entire packing line.
So before a single pack leaves our mill, there’s a lot more happening than filling it with oil.

From fixing faulty cartons, to manually folding every pack, matching every batch with its test report, and weighing every carton again, even after an automated filling line.

Come spend another day with Sibi Manivannan, this time in the packaging room, where quality isn’t just about what’s inside the pack, but everything that goes into getting it ready for your kitchen.

Packaging edition.
Part 2 of our Day in the Life series.

Funny how the first thing that goes into your pan is usually the last thing people think about.We thought about it for t...
03/08/2026

Funny how the first thing that goes into your pan is usually the last thing people think about.
We thought about it for three generations.

This isn’t really a story about oil.
It’s about a grandson who couldn’t forget the oil he grew up with.
A small village mill in Tamil Nadu.
Three generations of people who believed good oil didn’t need shortcuts.
One visit to a refinery that changed everything.

That question became Gramiyaa.
Today, every pack carries that same philosophy ; just with better systems, better testing, and complete traceability.

Swipe through our journey—from then to now.

27/07/2026

Every time you say "tel," you're accidentally saying "sesame."

Sesame (tila) was the original oilseed of the Indus Valley. When Sanskrit needed a word for oil, it just named it after the seed: taila.

Taila became tel in Hindi, and it's been carrying a 4,500-year-old secret ever since!

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