Were tamils eating grass before someone taught them to cook?
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Apparently "steaming" as a cooking process was not used in ancient India, it came from China in the v.early AD times.

Idli & Dosai were first made / "invented" in Udupi / the south kanara region by either the konkan or kannada ppl ( read abt this somewhere in Kamat's potpouri or somewhere i think). Wikipedia on Idli: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idli

MTR first introduced Rava Dosa and Rava Idli to the Indian Masses after experimenting with wheat during WWII after rice bcame short of supply. Perhaps MTR shd have patented its invention http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo.../icon_wink.gif

Any ideas where / how was Sambar, Payasam, etc, all those foods v take 4 granted, first made?

hm thats so true! not only this gen, but also parents encourage them, so shame! we r so adddicted to the foreigners!

apropos idli................i thought it was a tamil food! http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...s/icon_cry.gif

These are some sites about our ancients food habits. It makes interesting reading. I am as much disappointed as you folks to know that idli is not a native of Tamilnadu.

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யாகாவா ராயினு னாகாக்க Yes yes yes....Idli, Vadai (:P ) and Dosai are birth right or even discovery of Tamilizans...No compromice, whatsoever it may be....Idly is ours.....even idiappam.....no giving patent to others....

Were tamils eating grass before someone taught them to cook?
http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...on_redface.gif http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo.../icon_evil.gif http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...s/icon_eek.gif Not just then, pa, we are still eating grass! Biologically, rice is a grass.

Friends,

We need to understand that Tamilnadu has 10 months of Summer and two months of winter/rain.
Hence males prefer a Dhoti or lungi alone. But female have to wear Sarries or Nighty now. In Kerala women stand just with Blowses even today, as being day to day it is not sexy.

The Upper Caste Non-Brahmins and Priest when coming the Dalits must takeout thier Thuppatta and or Pudavai top. Though horible, they were not Topless.

Portughese Broke morethan 4000 Temples, which ae properly recorded. Killed Many in the name of Inquisition.

Today western World wear more poor way of dressing.

the dressing of US secretary lady was a great joke in Arabs.

Devapriya

Portughese Broke morethan 4000 Temples, which ae properly recorded. And do you know how much by the Arabs ?

We need to understand that Tamilnadu has 10 months of Summer Not only that: we must also understand that PaaNini was a Tamil lady who wrote grammar for "vadamozi"!! She used much materials from the South. This fact is well preserved through the legend that Siva, the southern( dravida ) deity transmitted all the knowledge to her from Himself.

gaddeswarup wrote:
Pl. see whether this is the type of information that you are interested; i read only the first one some time ago:
http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/s...2600010200.htm
http://www.hinduonnet.com/seta/2004/...2100111600.htm
http://www.hindu.com/seta/2004/11/04...0400061500.htm
http://www.kamat.com/database/articles/vnagar_foods.htm
Of a different flavour:
http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache...cd=60&ie=UTF-8 V.interesting and informative links. Thanks Dsath for putting it up here.

Was surprised that Sita fav food was Venison rice. No wonder she asked Rama to get the Marichi-in-disguise Deer. Perhaps not as a pet but as yummy food.

Were tamils eating grass before someone taught them to cook?
http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...on_redface.gif http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo.../icon_evil.gif http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...s/icon_eek.gif Not just then, pa, we are still eating grass! Biologically, rice is a grass. kandupudichitaruya periya podalanga! http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...on_twisted.gif ( just kidding. anyway, logically rice is a grass before it is cooked. once cooked it becomes food. )

good thing that no one said rice was introduced into tamil nadu by portuguese in 1590 and since tamil words could not start with ri, they added a and made it arici. http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...lies/ymlol.gif