04-18-2007, 05:48 PM
Sengotuvellllll, Ok OK, I will get used to that id Shiv.
On that picture. I am a Mumbaite, at least in heart now. See, we mumbaites have the original claim to build and live in a non hindu personal framework.
I was a teenager the first time, I traveled through the south in the early 80's. No North Indian restaurants, No sandwiches, Pav Baji, nothing, unlike today. This was especially true in the interiors, places such as Vjayawada in AP, Dindigul in TN, Balgaum and Udipi in Kannada land and Alleppey and Cannanore in Kerala and many other such small urban areas.
I was miserable. Almost everywhere the food was yikes - to my taste buds. I swear to you, I must have puked many times just watching the voracious eating style on the leaf. All this was ALIEN to a fork, spoon, knife guy such as myself then.
My South Indian experience in Mumbai was limited to Idli and Dosa. It is another matter now, where, we cook a variety of authentic SI food at home itself for about half of our meals in the week. Ask me to eat with hands on a leaf and I am a pro.
My point: The divorce from our native ways and means is real. Such trivia such as food and ways of living is part of the narrative.
It is important to discover some the causes of this loss and what should be done to arrest and reverse it.
On that picture. I am a Mumbaite, at least in heart now. See, we mumbaites have the original claim to build and live in a non hindu personal framework.
I was a teenager the first time, I traveled through the south in the early 80's. No North Indian restaurants, No sandwiches, Pav Baji, nothing, unlike today. This was especially true in the interiors, places such as Vjayawada in AP, Dindigul in TN, Balgaum and Udipi in Kannada land and Alleppey and Cannanore in Kerala and many other such small urban areas.
I was miserable. Almost everywhere the food was yikes - to my taste buds. I swear to you, I must have puked many times just watching the voracious eating style on the leaf. All this was ALIEN to a fork, spoon, knife guy such as myself then.
My South Indian experience in Mumbai was limited to Idli and Dosa. It is another matter now, where, we cook a variety of authentic SI food at home itself for about half of our meals in the week. Ask me to eat with hands on a leaf and I am a pro.
My point: The divorce from our native ways and means is real. Such trivia such as food and ways of living is part of the narrative.
It is important to discover some the causes of this loss and what should be done to arrest and reverse it.