INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Image:Watch Mastanamma cookingOne of the world's oldest YouTubers, 107-year-old Mastanamma from southern India, has died
She shot to fame on the internet for her cooking, which consisted of local and unusual dishes made from scratch.Her YouTube channel, Country
Foods, has more than a million subscribers with hundreds of cooking videos, including one on her iconic watermelon chicken.The channel,
managed by her grandson and his friend, launched in 2016 and became an instant hit
Born in the state of Andhra Pradesh, Mastanamma told TheIndianSubcontinent Monitoring she believed she was 106 years old in 2017 - although
she had no birth certificate to prove it
In the videos, she would often sit in an open field in a remote village with minimal cooking equipment and cutlery
She would use her nails to peel vegetables, and an old Indian-style knife to chop them
Food was served on a traditional southern Indian banana leaf
TheIndianSubcontinent Marathi's Onkar Karambalekar, who met Mastanamma in 2016, says her style of cooking differed greatly from what is
generally found on YouTube
He said she would burn the wood herself, instead of using a cooking stove, and liked cooking fish because she could source it fresh from a
"Her completely unique take on traditional Indian cooking was what made her a star," he adds
Country Foods announced Mastanamma's death on Monday with a video of her last rites
Since then, many fans have taken to social media to praise her recipes and mourn her death.On social media, she was dubbed the grandmother
with a toothless smile and best known for making the combination of watermelon and chicken go viral.Her rich eggplant curry and spicy catla
fish curry are among her most famous dishes
