Re: [silk] Food and Empire

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 8:50 PM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] The few times I've had Ceylon Parotta, it had meat/scrambled eggs stuffed into the fluffy bread. Kerala/Malabar Parotta and the Madras Porotta are very similar, except the Madras version has a smaller

Re: [silk] Food and Empire

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 8:50 PM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] The few times I've had Ceylon Parotta, it had meat/scrambled eggs stuffed into the fluffy bread. Kerala/Malabar Parotta

Re: [silk] Food and Empire

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What a TERRIBLE thread to read at 1.45pm. I have just converted the phulkas I was about to make for our lunch into parathas...and you lot are i want i want .

Re: [silk] Food and Empire

I really - but really! - feel sorry for you underprivileged, luckless Madrasis. Eat your hearts out as you think of me tucking into my luchi and alur dom (home made, natch).   Parottas, indeed. Even there, there's Mughlai paratha around the corner at the Ballygunge Phari Dhaba, if I don't feel

Re: [silk] Food and Empire

Bah ... can't compare to good ol' Appam and Stew, or my personal favorite Kappa and Meenu Curry (Tapioca and Fish Curry). Oh you hapless non-mallus -- you don't know what you're missing. -- b On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Bonobashi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I really - but really! - feel

Re: [silk] Food and Empire

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Biju Chacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bah ... can't compare to good ol' Appam and Stew, or my personal favorite Kappa and Meenu Curry (Tapioca and Fish Curry). Oh you hapless non-mallus -- you don't know what you're missing. The rest of the thread now looks as

Re: [silk] More collateral damage in the loudness war

Sirtaj Singh Kang wrote, [on 9/29/2008 9:30 PM]: surely you've heard what a decent, imaginative bass line can do to a metal song. On this note (heh) the shuffle button has just thrown up _Tequila_ from the Tony Levin album _Pieces of the Sun_ [1]. Recommended, for some really strange (yet

Re: [silk] Food and Empire

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Biju Chacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bah ... can't compare to good ol' Appam and Stew, or my personal favorite Kappa and Meenu Curry (Tapioca and Fish Curry). Oh you hapless

Re: [silk] More collateral damage in the loudness war

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 6:56 PM, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Not really metal, but somewhere on the family tree. http://www.nightwish.com/en/files/audio Also, somewhere on the family tree... Cheeni

Re: [silk] Food and Empire

Deepa Mohan [30/09/08 19:29 +0530]: You are all Orrible Peopleall this when I need to lose a kg and a half. And Bonobashi...you are the bagels-and-wurst of the lot. I am sending you a separate email about this. If it helps think of the luchi as loo, chee .. making up horrible (toilet

Re: [silk] Food and Empire

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 7:37 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Deepa Mohan [30/09/08 19:29 +0530]: You are all Orrible Peopleall this when I need to lose a kg and a half. And Bonobashi...you are the bagels-and-wurst of the lot. I am sending you a separate email

Re: [silk] Food and Empire

Deepa Mohan [30/09/08 19:47 +0530]: Does that kind of association-making really help you? It never does for meI have tried, especially since I am extremely partial to dark-chocolate-covered-marzipan, which means calories by the thousandsin vein, as Dracula said when asked if he had made

Re: [silk] More collateral damage in the loudness war

Srini Ramakrishnan wrote, [on 9/30/2008 7:30 PM]: Not really metal, but somewhere on the family tree. http://www.nightwish.com/en/files/audio Also, somewhere on the family tree... Yup. Almost a separate genre by itself by now - prog/symphonically influenced bands with classically trained

Re: [silk] Food and Empire

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 7:47 PM, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does that kind of association-making really help you? It never does for meI have tried, especially since I am extremely partial to dark-chocolate-covered-marzipan, which means calories by the thousandsin Deepa, you

[silk] FN's tech links, mainly from South Asia :: Oct 1, 2008

(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*) FN's tech links, mainly from South Asia :: Oct 1, 2008 (*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*) The Centre for Internet Society Bangalore http://cis-india.org/ Goobimama's Soggy Blog

Re: [silk] FN's tech links, mainly from South Asia :: Oct 1, 2008

(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*) FN's tech links, mainly from South Asia :: Oct 1, 2008 (*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*) Fred, if at all possible please dont post these to silk They are quite ontopic for india-gii (well, mostly).