--- On Sun, 7/6/09, Deepa Mohan <mohande...@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Deepa Mohan <mohande...@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [silk] Indian foodies
> To: silklist@lists.hserus.net
> Date: Sunday, 7 June, 2009, 4:22 AM
> On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 4:14 AM,
> Radhika, Y. <radhik...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > My mother says that rice is served first on the plate
> only to widows
> > presumably symbolizing the bareness of their lives in
> a traditional
> > society.
> > sounds barbaric to me so i now serve it first in
> complete defiance;-)
>
>
>
> Ha....my Iyengar friend (who's 80+, no one knows her actual
> age) cackles
> that I don't have any culture if I serve other dishes
> first, she says I
> should show that Annapoorni (the goddess of Anna, which is
> specifically rice
> and generally food) is respected by serving rice
> first. My Iyer aunt
> cackles if I serve rice first and says "you young people (I
> am 54) don't
> know any culture". I don't know whom to defy...should I be
> a def-iyer or a
> def-iyengar? Everyone seems to have their own "ethnic
> story" to support
> their own customs.
>
> Deepa.
Just remember the three ego states - I, Iyer and Iyengar - and go ahead and
serve the damn rice first. I, of course, am an entirely neutral and detached
observer.
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