India's oldest YouTuber, Andhra Pradesh home chef Andrakashari Mastanamma, passes away aged 107

Andrakashari Mastanamma, the 107-year-old cook , who shot to fame on YouTube for her exceptional culinary skills, passed away on 4 December. Her family posted a video on her channel of her last rites. [caption id=“attachment_5675511” align=“alignnone” width=“825”] Mastanamma. Youtube screengrab[/caption] Mastanamma’s channel, Country Foods, has over 12 millions followers on the platform. The videos focus on providing easy-to-follow recipes that can be recreated with minimum ingredients and equipment. Moreover, she used to create dishes with international flavours but only using local produce; her signature recipes include watermelon chicken curry and village style KFC chicken. Her specialty, however, lay in seafood. Her video on making egg fried rice has garnered over 15 millions views. Followers also admired her ingenious style of cooking. She used to peel potatoes, tomatoes and ginger with her hands and grind spices using a traditional mortar and pestle. She also used to cook on a chulha (Indian version of a clay oven_)_. As per The News Minute, two mediapersons from Hyderabad, K Laxman and Srinath Reddy were instrumental in starting the channel in 2016. Laxman shared a video of Mastanamma, who was also his distant relative, preparing a brinjal curry. The video instantly catapulted her into the YouTube space and made her into an Internet sensation overnight. Currently, her channel has over 200 videos on it. Mastanamma hailed from Gudiwada in the Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh. The report informs that she got married at the age of 11, but her husband passed away when she was 22 years old. She is now survived by her five children.