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Welcome to Meena's Kitchen works.  My name is Ramya Krishnan.  I am from the southern part of India.  India is known for it's cultural diversity, hospitality and most importantly its cuisine. 

India is melting pot of culturally diverse people with different cuisine. The traditional food of India has been widely appreciated for its fabulous use of herbs and spices. Indian cuisine is known for its large assortment of dishes. The cooking style varies from region to region and is largely divided into South Indian & North Indian cuisine. India is quite famous for its diverse multi cuisine available in a large number of restaurants and hotel resorts, which is reminiscent of unity in diversity. The staple food in India includes wheat, rice and pulses with chana (Bengal Gram) being the most important one. In modern times Indian palette has undergone a lot of change. In the last decade, as a result of globalization, a lot of Indians have travelled to different parts of the world and vice versa there has been a massive influx of people of different nationalities in India. This has resulted in various international cuisines being changed ever so slightly to suite the Indian palette. Nowadays, in big metro cities one can find specialized food joints of international cuisines.

The cuisine of South India is known for its light, low calorie appetizing dishes. The traditional food of South India is mainly rice based. The cuisine is famous for its wonderful mixing of rice and lentils to prepare yummy lip smacking dosas, vadas, idlis and uttapams.

Apart from the dosas and idlis that South India is famous for, there are some lesser known dishes sweet and savoury dishes that are made from lentils and jaggery like payasam, kozhukatta, unniyappam, neeyyappam.

Food is generally classified into six tastes: sweet, sour, salt, bitter, pungent and astringent. A traditional Tamil culinary belief is that one should include all six tastes in each main meal eaten. Each taste has a balancing ability and including some of each provides complete nutrition, minimizes cravings and balances the appetite and digestion

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