The history of Mast Masala making India Maharaja abroad for centuries and the present of an Akona American salad!

- Unveiled: Jay Vasavada

- The splendor of the spice is such that in the first century Greek book 'Periplus of Erythrian Sea' it is written that half a kilo of cinnamon peel was available for an average Roman's six months' salary!

It is learned that a satirical column by humor columnist Jean Weingarten was published in the Washington Post. The title of the series was 'You Can't Make Me in Those Foods.' In which the brother was pulling out dishes he disliked. Fine, if you don't have to laugh at anything in the world, then life becomes a constant cry. But if the cartoon has the right parameters of fun, no, no ... not to hurt religious feelings. It is only when there is such dubious fun that the voices of fundamentalists like the Taliban explode without sound. But in the name of laughter, the fact cannot be inverted. If there is a Prime Minister, it becomes a cartoon with sharp sharp satire of Narendra Modi in a democracy. But if you show Modisaheb without a beard, he will not be Narendrabhai. This is a factual error. In the humor of advertisements, the focus of this 'characterization' is on the caricature.

So that Jean Weingartan brother ate this goth. He kept going from 'fun' to 'insult' mode while having fun eating and drinking. (This distinction is still not understood by many meme-making friends or commentators, nor is there a course of etiquette in the new education policy.) He was angry at the Indian cuisine known as 'Indian Curry' Now many Indians do not know that the word 'curry' is used for Hindustani dishes, in general. As we say come to eat bread, not only sorghum bread, but the whole plate of food is meant. 'Curry' does not mean curry.

"Indian food is so tasteless that a vulture sitting on a pile of meat (even if the vulture never leaves the meat, how can it not eat it!) Will fly away!" "The oldest food in the world, called Bhatigal, is based on just one spice.

Khalas. After reading such a blatant lie, the boiler of hot supermodel Padmalakshmi, who was originally the girlfriend of Salman Rushdie, a well-known writer from London and a judge in a top chef show, burst. Political agenda-makers are always trying to tarnish the image of a 'borrowed Taliban' outside of liberal India by shouting at some Indian symbol or wearing clothes. But when it comes to waving the flag of our affairs, their empty skulls do not fall. So instead of Ramayana, the world's first story 'Epic of Gilgamash' is shown by Sumer. But if Selena Gomez dances in a sari-bindi, seeing a woman's body will turn brown like a bull in the name of religion! Meanwhile, Bapdikara Shashi Tharoor-Ishaan Tharoor roasted a foreigner who was blabbering on about Idli.

But such real issues are raised only by people who are intelligent, have a global mindset, have cultural roots and live a colorful life by studying neutral facts. That is why Padmalakshmi, assuming the form of Kalikas, directly attacked the gentleman who had reached the tumor from the humor that had gone to the trolley. Of course, in words that denigrate civilized society. "Ela Ghogha (this is our addition) on Bihaf of 1.5 billion people kindly f ... off!" What he said by tapping the clever English F-word means, "Please go for rent, go for oil, go to the stove, Mua Mahania, take it on behalf of one billion and thirty crore Indians."

Padmalakshmi has written an encyclopedia of spices for India. He recommended reading it to that Lallulal. He said, "Indian gossip is made from a single spice. A gossip like Tara who needs a spice needs to be taught about spices and spices." Then he took the Washington Post by surprise and wrote that this was your colonial (feudal) attitude. Do you have any knowledge about Indian cuisine or cuisine?

Then another one joined Padmalakshmi. Pakistani writer Shirin Ahmed supported it! The words he uttered to Weingarton were: "I am proud of Pakistani (i.e. originally Hindustani!) Cooking, but I love the wonderful fusion of South Indian and Indian." To write such false racist stories like Tara's is called Havad. (Then the typical desi curse has started!) Go, your rice will be sticky, your bread will be dry, your chili will scratch your tongue and your papad will be blown away, Nakkhodia! ”

Olo Waitgarten would be naive enough to admit his mistake and correct it, but he went to an Indian restaurant called Rasika in Washington DC and tweeted, I do not retract my words. ' But Meena Harris, the outspoken niece of US Vice President Kamala Harris of Indian descent, exclaimed, "Ella, Columbus knew centuries ago that India was not just a spice!" (Columbus first discovered America by accident in search of Indian spices) In addition to Indian-American celebrities such as Bharara, Mindy Calling, Mr. Srinivasan, Allu Arur, some well-known chefs, a couple of Hollywood heroines, Mexicans, British Muslims, Sabodyo. Leena Srivastava even said, "I want to read an Indian writer who tears the rags of American food without spices and blows flags!" Torasa Ghoshal said, "Go to an Indian store in Budthal, America and read a packet of garam masala. There will be dozens of spices instead of one! ”

Finally, a week ago on Monday, the Washington Post reported that Donald Trump did not apologize when he was president, he revealed the apology. In the online edition, he edited the article and noted that 'Indian food is made up of only one spice, which is a totally wrong (incorrect) detail. Infect, Indian taste just doesn’t fit in the word ‘curry’. India is rich in a wide variety of dishes, with many new spices. Finally came to the right place in Weingarton. Grilled and grinded, he wrote, 'Sorry, I should have written the name of a dish. This series shows what kind of tiger I am (if he used the word D .. head). Various spices are combined in Indian taste. I'm sorry. '

Yeh hui na baat. Our flags remain high. Satyameva Jayate. But this excuse reminded me that in the hobby of eating and drinking, India has nothing to say. But how many people today have the same understanding of the heritage of our music or sculpture as the heritage of this curative and delicious spice? Just as the Indian heritage of the world's priceless erotic juice has been forgotten in India in the wake of false hypocritical religiosity, so too should the spice, the infect taste. Far from being proud of it, the people who are allergic to the sticky diet spread such false unscientific information in the name of ancient dietary rules, and do not apologize for gossiping without upgrading on the basis of scriptures. Conversely, threats are met with abuse. Some even have a closed mind that gets diarrhea when they see that they eat and digest coke in the name of medicine.

But just like the old ad for 'Jo Biwi Se Sachmuch Karte Pyaar Woh Prestige Se Kaise Kare Ankar', there is a concern that we are old enough to leave, that there is no pride in what is truly unique and unprecedented. Let's delete. So 'If you really love India, then how can you refuse colors, Kama Sutras and spices?'

In this, these spices, these spices had turned the history of India and the whole world upside down! The English word spices comes from the same clan from which the word 'species' is derived. And the word 'special' is also a branch of the same origin from Latin. Spices were considered special because they were truly special to the West, which later ruled the world. Special means gold and silver diamonds. Not in saying, in real, according to the price list.

In the fifth century, Egypt was also under the control of the Romans, who issued a tax document called the 'Alexandria Tariff'. Which is considered a special luxury item on which a hefty tax (like the one we currently have there on imported premium cars or liquor) is levied. There was a heavy tax of 3% on 6 items at that time. Which was imported from the East. Among them were spices like lion, leopard, silk, ivory, Indian shemale along with spices like cinnamon, pepper, cardamom, nutmeg, ginger, turmeric which were among the imported items with heavy duty tax! The cookbook that Epicurus wrote at the time contained a recipe for six dishes, two-thirds (almost seventy-one percent) of which contained spices.

These are all misconceptions that if the meat is kept for a long time or spoiled, the stench will be removed. Oil, salt, sugar syrup are preservatives. Those expensive spices only fed the rich class who were not poor who ate stale food. But in the beginning, the spice used for incense tasted good in pale food. And good health. Especially remember that chili and living were not part of our spice then. Like the tomato potato, it became more widely used in the 19th and 19th centuries when it was introduced by foreigners. Cumin, rye, fenugreek, suva, ajmo, kokum, badian, tamalpatra, etc., have been mixed in Indian spices with Iranian-Afghan hing and coriander from years ago. At that time, Indian spices were rich in cinnamon and pepper. Then turmeric and ginger. Tulsi is considered sacred, and although it is healthy, it is not used as a special spice, but in Europe it is used as an anise-cousin called basil.

In the West, Indian spices have become a status symbol since the beginning of the last millennium. All this does not grow well in the cold snowy region. Meat or bread that must be eaten and preserved feels tasteless due to preservative salt. Magical stories were associated with Indian spices, the Western world had never seen why it grows and what its flowers look like. So there were all kinds of fictional stories. India was so far away that there was no idea of ​​satellite view or air services. China's Silk Route was also unknown. The Greeks believed that if you go south towards India, the sea will get hot and there will be no habitation. But due to Alexander, the map of Asia was known there and the so-called golden age of India is from 800 BC to AD. Production was booming in the time of kings like Maurya-Guptayuga-Kushan, Chola etc. of 600. The adventure of plowing a new world is as low as it is today, so contented Indians would never go out to explore the world. Arab sailors or Europeans exploring India. When generations of Vasco da Gama were not born. In 1904, a ghostly ship-like ship appeared mysteriously in the Red Sea, with only one sailor surviving, the port of Alexandria in Egypt being occupied by the Greeks, and when presented to Emperor Prole VIII, neither of them knew the language. Eventually, a native Indian sailor was sent to learn Greek. At that time, the sea route from Egypt to India was occupied by the Arabs (Islam came later, Arabia was the first.) The sailors talked about returning home. The emperor spoke of showing India's isolated sea route to prove the truth. The Greek emperor Exodus, a geographer, joined him. Several months later he returned from South India with a consignment of spices and gems. Sent again by Queen Cleopatra III. But then it disappeared into the sea.

But when the sea breeze was favorable, about a hundred ships from there used to carry spices from the ports of Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Gujarat to the surrounding islands like China, Malaysia, Java, Sumatra, Bali, Thailand to India every year. Then the flow reversed. After the Greco-Romans, the so-called Crusades wars broke out between Christians and Muslims. Turkey's - Constantinople / Istanbul became the link connecting Asia-Europe, with Arab sailors dominating the Indian spice trade. Which route did not have entry to other Christian Europeans.

But the splendor of the spice is such that in the first century Greek book Periplus of Erythrian Sea it is written that half a kilo of cinnamon peel was available at the average Roman's six-month salary! Pliny the Elder wrote in Rome that every year five and a half crore of our coins are used to buy Indian spices. Let's talk about 40 rupees for a 15 paisa cola drink or 200 rupees for a popcorn of 5 rupees, he said, which would be a hundred times the original price! Due to such low prices, stories of making Indian spices gods were prevalent. Is. When Rome was invaded by the Gothic king Elerich in 607 BCE, he demanded a ransom of 500 pounds [200 kg] of gold, 20,000 pounds of silver, 5,000 pieces of silk, 3,000 pieces of clothing, and 1,200 pounds of pepper!

Pepper is more premium in India than gold! One of the reasons is that bulk transportation of lighter spices is easier than heavy gold and the profit is lower! In it, the famous Italian astronomer Paolo Toscanelli blasted at the Portuguese court in Lisbon on the 16th, saying that he had guessed the shortest route to 'India: the Land of Spices'. In which India will get faster by going to West instead of typically going South! His reputation as an astronaut was so great that there was little discussion, and when he found it, he imagined it - the sailor Christopher Columbus went to get the map.

The latter story is well known to the fly reader. Toscanelli disturbed the scale of Eurasia and the circumference of the earth, and Columbus reached the island of America towards America. In which the natives of America got the name 'Red Indian'. When Columbus' second voyage to India did not go down well with Gotham in the 19th century, King Manuel of Portugal built a fleet under the captaincy of Vasco da Gama in the 19th century. And amidst the confusion of Muslims and Christians, after getting Gujarati Kanji Malam from Africa, we finally met King Zamorin in Calicut (Kozhikode) on our Malabari coast. Hinduism (the name was not even used before) The temples of the goddesses to the villages without knowing anything seemed to belong to the Virgin Mary. But it also opened the door to the west. Trade with India to direct everything instead of just Muslim Arab intermediaries / middlemen. The mainstay of the business? Spices and textiles!

This is a long and interesting history of such western journeys that started in India. But if we go 100 years back from that point, in the year 1800, ships would come to the Italian port of Venezia, full of splendor like the splendor of Europe, with 200 tons of spices a year! And 90% of it was Indian pepper! The price of that pepper increased eightfold between 1910 and 1914! Constantinople fell after the Ba'athist empire in the 16th century. Later Dutch, French and British East India companies were established to do direct trading with India.

In the end, the British got away and captured India like Ladhi Pol looking for a hole! After the Norris Street Caf first experimented with serving Indian flavors in London on the 19th, an Indian man named Sheikh Din Mohammad, who had served in the British Army and married an Irish woman, started an Indian cafe at 8 George Street. In the 19th British Oriental Club started Indian dishes for white masters working in India and in the 19th it was named 'Kari'. Edward Padmer, the great-grandson of the 18th Hyderabadi princess and English lieutenant general's love marriage, started 'Veeraswamy's' at 2, Regent Street, serving dhosa with a full-fledged pilaf today.

In 1908, some of the sailors with the East India Company began to set sail for the United States like the New World. In 180, Bengali Muslim hawkers sold Indian goods there. Then initially got married there. Mexican, African American, with Puritan. In 190, there were half a dozen Indian restaurants in New York. Then today you can see an Indian restaurant opened in Gujarati in Times Square. Panipuri can be found in Devon, Chicago. The best Indian spices are available in the stores of Patel Brothers in America. And saffron is also found from Kashmir to Spain! Golden milk with turmeric is also available at Starbucks.

Yes, a complaint with a neutral taste buds is true, with few exceptions, many of the foreign Indian restaurants that have sprung up from Dubai to Sydney to Los Angeles to Nairobi do not have authentic tests. Frozen food is preserved and served hot. Weingart must have taken something like this out of the fridge and grabbed a fried samosa again. But he should eat Manekchowk or Athwalines or Indore, Delhi, Mumbai, Calcutta. If you just count the Andhra-Karnataka sauces, the mouth will be as wide as a spicy potato in a goulash.

But the mysticism of the spice will remain intact. The doctor who gathered Columbus sang the praises of ginger / ginger. The fact that pepper contributes to digestion or reduces the internal inflammation of turmeric and works against infections is thousands of years old in India and China, and today a scientific test has proved it. Cinnamon, cloves, chillies, onions, garlic, cumin, fenugreek are also antibiotics that kill certain types of bacteria. So that the foreigners who call it hot because of the 'heat' can learn to eat spicy (like chilli seed or Malabari like black pepper) which releases sweat.

Xing Thing!

Why is their food so pale even though the British ruled for almost 200 years by becoming the East India Company for Indian spices? Giggle.