On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Radhika, Y. <[email protected]> wrote: > I also suspect that indians have a need/addiction to > spice and certain combinations of spices and find other tastes too > different/bland.
yum, spice is nice :) The dominoes pizza would taste bland even after throwing a bottle of chilly flakes on it and american green chillies are not spicy at all. Even in India there is a _huge_ difference in spices that are home-made than those commercially available. Most hotels in India dont bother to serve the variety of local cuisine - just the limited standard stuff. I have yet to see a hotel menu with fresh rice sevai, lasoon chutney, appam, missi roti, neer dosa, gatta kadi, vaalachi virdi, pesarettu or even sweets like methi ladoo, adai pradhaman, dhik/ding ladoos, jackfruit halwa, elai adai payasam, chakli, fresh sweet coconut dumplings, mango panna,... These are not rare or special foods and yet its only available either at a friend's home or yours (depending on the region your origins lie). -- ., is hungry now :-/
