Who made the first egg puff? The story of a bakery that fed kings, hosted Basheer

Walk into any bakery in Kerala and you'll find them. Egg puffs, meat puffs, vegetable puffs... they're everywhere. But have you ever wondered who first made the egg puff? Or how this flaky bakery favourite came to Kerala?
In this episode of Served Since, we travel to Cochin Bakery, one of Kerala's oldest bakeries, founded in 1939, to trace the story behind one of Kerala's most iconic bakery snacks

From four brothers who left Thalassery to start a bakery in Kochi, to Vaikom Muhammad Basheer selling books inside Cochin Bakery, the arrival of puff pastry in the 1960s, and the birth of the egg puff in the early 1970s—this is the story behind a snack generations of Malayalis have grown up with