Kaveri Ponnapa is the author of The Vanishing Kodavas, an acclaimed cultural study of the Kodava people. Her second book, A Place Apart, Poems from Kodagu is a translation into English and transliteration of a selection of Kodava poems. In recognition of her ongoing research and documentation of Kodava culture, in 2021, she received the Gaurava Puraskara from the Karnataka Kodava Sahitya Academy. Kaveri is a widely published independent writer on food and heritage.