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Whoa... hell of an OP. I cook a lot of Indian food, but it tends to be a very broad definition. This adds a huge amount of regional specificity to my knowledge. Thanks!
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dino. posted:@Squashy: I'm glad you enjoyed the read. It was a lot of information to cover. Essentially, you shouldn't think of India in terms of a single country. The linguistic and cultural barriers present from state to state make India more like a miniature Europe than a single country with any overarching unity in it. The cultures and foods are vastly different. Yup, I know it's a huge country... I've worked with many Indian folks over the years (first I was an engineer, and then in the out-sourcing business), and I've always loved taking them out to my favorite Indian places for lunch, because nothing is ever 100% "correct"!  Even if the chef is from the same region, there is always a lot of "Well, my mom does it this way", and "I've never really liked that style", and even "Why they hell does this X have Y in it? That's totally wrong!" So yeah, I know that it's a big country with tons of subcultures, I was just happy to have some details to help fill in the picture a little. Previous to your post, I knew that Punjabi was north, and Hydrebadi is from the south, and that was about it. ColdPie posted:e: Holy crap you have a book? Yep, and it's a very good book, too. Only downside is the boutique publisher; I ordered mine off of Amazon, and it took almost 6 weeks to get delivered. Hey Dino, have you considered using this OP and thread as the kernel of another book? A proper taxonomy of Indian food regionalisms would be a really interesting read! It probably wouldn't need that many recipes, either.
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Nov 18, 2012 18:22
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Shnooks posted:Edit: Nevermind, found some markets local to me that will probably sell them! We've got several fantastic Indian Markets on the South Shore (including this gem: http://www.yelp.com/biz/apna-bazar-norwood ), so there must be SOME in Boston. I just don't know where they are. Also, MarketBasket tends to have a surprisingly good selection of things like curry leaves, fresh tumeric, etc etc.
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