--- On Tue, 2/6/09, Charles Haynes <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Charles Haynes <[email protected]>
> Subject: [silk] Indian foodies
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Tuesday, 2 June, 2009, 6:37 AM
> On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 1:21 AM,
> Venkat Mangudi <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > And that, my friend, is the biggest problem the Indian
> (techie) faces.
> > We are not prone to experiment and want the food that
> we ate all our
> > lives.
>
> This was one of the biggest shocks to me of living in
> Bangalore, and
> travelling around India. The lack of diversity in the
> cuisine. Now
> before you all start shouting and pillory me, India as a
> whole has an
> amazingly diverse cuisine and I learned a lot and learned
> to
> appreciate a lot while I was there. (I still miss Meen
> Pollichathu,
> Andhra chilli chicken, hyderabadi biryani, and brain fry.)
> But! The
> lack of diversity I'm referring to is in what I observed of
> what most
> of the Indians I knew ate! They mostly eat the dishes they
> were raised
> with, and they complain if they aren't prepared exactly the
> way their
> mother did. It was crazy!
<snip>
> Anyway, enough raving. I was astonished to discover just
> *how*
> unadventurous your average Indian was with respect to
> trying new and
> different food.
>
> -- Charles
I think that it is astonishing that approximately 40 years after IT took a
tentative step forward as a new industry, and found that its guiding spirit was
international cooperation, leading to international travel, and sent thousands
of Indians around the world into different food regimes, we still crave to eat
food as our mothers made it. The only hope is for the future and I am putting
my life at limb in articulating this. As the death-grip of the Indian joint
family loosens, as the Indian mother stops slaving in the kitchen for the
Indian son, as two-income families increase in number, those who grow up
without food the way Mother made may become foodies.
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