Actually most of the voyages to India in old times.. Columbus included, were for spices. I am surprised why they wanted spices when Europeans use it so little.
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India has its own unique dishes such as Vindaloo and Butter Chicken or Mango Chicken and Iddly Dhoosa
that is all indian food
ahem...
there is no dish known as vindaloo in India. Well not originally. It is term coined in britain in the 60's when you people wanted to know what to call hot curries. To the indians vindaloo seemed the closes approximation to garam or mircheela.
So in reality any vindaloo dish you might ever see is a dish created in UK so is in reality an ENGLISH dish.
there ;-)
Ive eaten biryani on a leaf. The best part of it is that all the oil and grease is on the leaf so you can eat the leaf also
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This is mostly like how Italian pasta is actually Chinese. I’ve eaten south indian food at one of my Madras friends. It tastes horrible. Except for the chicken and rice. It was mostly vegetarian stuff which I loathe.
You can hate me now…
But I won’t stop now…
In UK, 95% of Indian restaurants are actually being owned by Bengalis, so now Bengalis are cooking the punajbi food, and selling them as Indian dishes. But the problem is Once Pakistan and Bengladesh were the parts of india and unfortunately some narrow minded people still dont want to introduce their identity but I dont blame Bengalis, because the food they are selling is not their food they are just cooking it and selling it with a name they themselves are not sure of.
You know Biryani on a leaf rather sounds quite exotic. I'll love to try it sometime.
hmmmm biryani on a leaf.
for exotic food try my haleem on a pillow :>
ah brought this back up. i'm just wondering what % of indians in india r veggies. how often meat is eaten etc. from what i can gather talking to my mother and reading stuff most north indian vaishyas and all brahmins cept kashmiris, bengalis, and maybe some others are veg. jains are vegan. so that right there might only be around 10% of the population. my mother said most of the sikhs they have met r veg. this sounds a bit fishy. most gujus and rajasthanis r veg also and a lot of southies r veg. so from this info what i gathered is about 20-35% of pop is veg. How correct is this?
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ah brought this back up. i'm just wondering what % of indians in india r veggies. how often meat is eaten etc. from what i can gather talking to my mother and reading stuff most north indian vaishyas and all brahmins cept kashmiris, bengalis, and maybe some others are veg. jains are vegan. so that right there might only be around 10% of the population. my mother said most of the sikhs they have met r veg. this sounds a bit fishy. most gujus and rajasthanis r veg also and a lot of southies r veg. so from this info what i gathered is about 20-35% of pop is veg. How correct is this?
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First the other day Indian was complaining about Pakistani opening restaurants & naming it Indian Restaurant.
So Xtreme you might eat your words ,its Pakistanis that want to hawk thses moghul dishes as Indian b/c of larger name acceptability ,identity ,there are lot more indians here world over & in Indfia than total Pakistanis which U.P. a province of India alone has more than 200 millions.
In a country like America where marketing is the bottom line ,it doesnt matter where your PIzza is made by illrgal Mexicans Tortia by peurto rican ,Biryani by bangladeshi as long as you get enough ppl. to pay for it .
Well marketing is marketing it doesn't make it the truth does it?
If I open a chip shop in Karachi and call it Abdul Mian's best Bengali Fries, it's not going to make that food Bengali is it?
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Mr Xtreme - tell it like it is!!
Xtreme
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Remember & if not now youll thank me some day
TRUTH IS WHAT IS BELIEVABLE
TRUTH IS WHAT IS BELIEVABLE
TRUTH IS WHAT IS BELIEVABLE
At least for this " jinhe naaz hai hind pe woh kahan haine ?"
Father is like the referigerator light .You only notice it when it is fused!
TRUTH IS WHAT IS BELIEVABLE
I don’t believe that statement so I guess it must be untrue. Looks like you just nobbled yerself
Xtreme
problems with extremes are that they are marginalised opinion of minority NOT THE MAJORITY THAT PREVAILS
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True or False according to ONE (UNO) ‘EIK’ ,doesnt hold much unless you live in an island stranded with another person with whom if you disagree at best you can tie but NEVER WIN prevail or count.
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so lets talk about real life when media ,canvassing ,political correctness, gallop poll are there to manufacture truth who r you ?
What does majority opinion have to do with true or false? Are we canvassing sheep here that everybody has to fall into line?
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bleat once for yes, twice for no
Ever stand before a jury on trial for first degree murder in Texas ,the state with Death Sentence .It means you are dead as log .Thats what majority jury not believing you can do
Multicultural Recipes Dish Up Profit
Restaurateurs Expand Menus to Include Foods From Beyond Their Homelands
By Abhi Raghunathan
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, July 1, 2002; Page B03
AAt a tiny eatery tucked away in a Herndon office park, diners can sit down to a meal that spans four continents.
There are samosas from India and hummus from the Middle East, fajitas from Latin America and jerk chicken from Jamaica, rice noodles from Singapore and, for dessert, blintzes from Eastern Europe. To wash it all down, Spanish sangria, Japanese sake or Thai beer.
It all tastes authentic, a surprising result given that the woman created the recipes has never set foot in most of these places. Shirley Janairo Roth, owner of A Taste of the World, was born in the Philippines and did not learn to cook many of the dishes on her restaurant's menu until after she came to the United Statesin 1964.
Had she stayed in the Philippines, she said, "I would not have gotten into different kinds of foods." But in the United States, "if you open a Filipino restaurant . . . it can be very hard to survive."
A Taste of the World may be unique for the number of cultures on its menu, but not for the sentiments that led to its creation. As more and more immigrants settle in the Washington region, those who work in the food business are increasingly involved with restaurants that go beyond their ethnicity. They don't see themselves as curators of their native cultures, but as American entrepreneurs: Afghans wrapping burritos, Filipinos making gyros, Iranians seasoning pasta.
Many of them come from countries -- Afghanistan and Iran, for example -- whose food is not widely known by Americans. So they specialize in tastes with proven popularity, such as Italian or Mexican dishes, sometimes seasoning them with their own cultures.
"The extent of this kind of ethnic crossover is very much reflective of increasing diversity," said Marilyn Halter, a professor of history at Boston University who studies the economic culture of immigrant and ethnic communities. "The United States has a legacy of this. . . . Immigrants are historically entrepreneurial, and so they're in tune to what works, to what are the consumer constituencies, the fastest-growing populations."
About 240,000 legal immigrants settled in the Washington area between 1990 and 1998, arriving from 193 countries and territories, according to a Brookings Institution study. Overall, 1 in 6 area residents was born in another country, according to the 2000 Census, up from 1 in 9 a decade earlier.
When Zia Larijani opened Flames five years ago, he based the Rockville restaurant and nightclub on his cultural background, not census data. Flames featured Persian food and music.
The fire didn't burn very long, however. With a small local Persian population, business was slow. Larijani examined population trends and decided to give his place a makeover.
It debuted again as Ristorante Felicita, an Italian eatery that doubles as an international nightclub on Friday and a Spanish nightclub on Saturday. Larijani also has a catering service that offers Chinese, Japanese and Mexican foods, among others.
"I found that there's much more Spanish people in this area than Arabs or Persians," he said of the reason for the change.
On a recent Saturday night, about a hundred patrons danced to salsa and merengue music selected by a deejay from El Salvador; others sat around sipping beer, mostly Corona, while flirting.
At some spots, native cultures coexist and blend with new cuisine. Cappuccino's Restaurant in Georgetown has pizza and falafel, both made by Sam Elissawy. The Egyptian native was accustomed to eating Middle Eastern food but grew to appreciate Italian cuisine while working in an Italian restaurant. Economic considerations also played a role in his decision to mix and match.
"We have to have a variety" of foods, he said, adding that a falafel stand or pizzeria alone was not enough to make money in a diverse region. "Washington is an international city."
A popular lunch destination for office workers in Alexandria is California Wraps, a "gourmet" burrito stand run by Hamid Ahmadzai, 51, an Afghan who has spent much of his working life assembling electronics, not burritos.
After being laid off a few years ago, Ahmadzai decided to open a restaurant patterned after a small chain of burrito stands that his sister and brother-in-law run in the San Francisco area. Customers of the Alexandria eatery can order traditional burritos with beans, beef and rice, or try a World Wrap burrito, which can include lamb and peppers, Indian curry or Thai chicken.
For Joe Corey, co-founder of the Faccia Luna chain and an owner of the Boulevard Woodgrill restaurant in Arlington, there is no way to keep his Lebanese heritage off his menus. His chain may be billed as Italian, but its offerings are strongly influenced by the hummus, stuffed grape leaves and intricate spices he grew up eating.
"It's so ingrained in the way I think, it permeates everything we do here," he said.
The chicken quesadillas at the Boulevard Woodgrill, for example, include cilantro and black bean hummus, while the calamari features his own seasonings.
Perhaps the most telling examples of this cultural blending, he said, are the ones he can no longer explicitly name because they are so thoroughly ingrained and accepted.
"It's almost reflexive," he said. "You can't help it."
Ever stand before a jury on trial for first degree murder in Texas ,the state with Death Sentence .It means you are dead as log .Thats what majority jury not believing you can do
Ever been a nig-nog in front of a Ku Klux Klan jury in Texas? Found guilty?
"Well massah, s’pose’s dem whitey’s mus’ be tellin’ de truth, yessuh! bless yo’sel for reveelin’ me to da trutth
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of all the foods in the region (Iranian, indian, afghan, arab, turkish) I love Pakistani food the best. It has the best combos, flavours and presentation. The food is creative.
It used to bother me much when i used to see indians having pakistani foods in their cuisines, some indian restaurants are named bukhara, khyber, etc..What bothered me even more is when Pakistani restaurants would have a subscript of indian-pakistani cuisisne, when nothing in the menu would be indian.
It doesnt bother me much now, I see capitalistic spirit init. But still it would be nice if Pakistani restaurant owners would risk prmoting Pakistan's name more than shadowing it with others just to get more customers.
I'll be seeing ya'll, I aint taken chances with dee FBI...
Isn't funny, whether it's about fighting about borders or land and now food........Indians and Pakistanis can seem to find something to fight about.........the fact of the matter is that at one time we were all indians.....sorry to tell all pakistanis but your roots were from India.........Should I say, Hail Hitler or should I commend the British when they said "Divide and Conquer".......pat yourself on the backs people, I thought that when you are muslim whether you are indian or pakistani or any other race it didn't matter because we have only one god........Allah maaf karaye.......i have admit that pakistanis for some reason think they are superior to all races.....And we wonder why pakistan is afflicted with it's political and social problems...because the age old mentality prevails
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i have admit that pakistanis for some reason think they are superior to all races
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Thanks for the admission brother! It is the first step towards full mental health.
BTW, what made you admit to the above universal truth?