On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 5:31 PM, gabin kattukaran<gkattuka...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Kiran Jonnalagadda<j...@pobox.com> wrote: >> Incidentally, something I didn't grow up with and therefore encountered with >> surprise in the homes of relatives: it is a great offense to serve rice >> before any other item. Serving rice first apparently implies you're too poor >> to eat anything else. >> >> Is this common practice elsewhere? > > I don't know if there is any taboo associated with it but in > traditional Kerala meals the rice is served after most of the other > food is served (except for the sambhar, rasam, dal or curd which goes > on the rice)
On the other hand at most family meals (when there is no plantain leaf involved) the rice is served first. -gabin -- this too shall pass
