Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Indian food - not only style, but substance too

What is Indian cuisine? Is it just tandoori chicken? Or samosas? Naans and parathas?

Indian cuisine is so varied, even Indian have not tasted them all. In the north, there are of course the tandoori chickens, the naans, the paraths, the chapatis and the pulaos. In the south are the dosas, the idlis, the vadas, rasam, the chutneys, etc. In the east are the fish curries, the sweet dishes like the rosogolla. In the west are the khakras, the dhoklas, etc. etc.

So, the conclusion we can draw from all this is that, there is no one Indian cuisine. There are, rather, cuinsines - Assamese cuisine of the north-east, Rajasthani cuisine of the west, Gujarati cuisine, South Indian cuisine - as many of them as we we have names for them.

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