ubuntu-women article in fullcircle
By SVAKSHA on 2007 December 19 [Wednesday], 20:36:00 - STEM - Permalink
Ubuntu Women is almost two now, so I wrote an article for the Fullcircle magazine (which is a really nice colourful mag :-)) as I wanted to highlight each UW volunteer and their involvement in the different aspects of the Ubuntu community and while proofreading it realised that Ronnie had given me a limit of 350 words and I had written more than double :-(.... Some heavy editing (almost by half, which is not that easy for me) later i was done so hope I did not miss any grrls. Ideally we need to get this done on the UW wiki pages. You can download it from here : http://www.ronnietucker.co.uk/issue8marketingPreview.pdf
Its been raining all day today and has managed to kill my ideal notions of how winter weather should be ... snug and warm in wollens, not rainy 'n soggy and increasing my caffine consumption by litres (literally). Atleast i got to eat undiyo (a nice gujarati dish), something i dont get to indulge in down here. Hmm... my experience with eating north-indian food in south-india has been dissapointing to say the least, so the less i say about it the better.
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When linking to a sizeable PDF can you put the size in parentheses too ? For example this one is ~7MB
Strange that you mention it, but my somewhat
limited exposure to North Indian cuisine in BLR has been much better than what
I used to get in DEL. The "tadka" laden richness of DEL North Indian food
generally used to put me off. At least in BLR there is an attempt to cook
wholesome North Indian (there's an oxymoron if I know one)
@Sankarshan : /me thinks the chef was preparing the dish when he realised that its N.Indian food that the customer ordered... dang... add some garam masala to the kurma (which already has coconut??)...now that is a definite dish-identity crisis...
ah, maybe you tried the upmarket speciality restaurants. I tried Kanti's which is reasonable and good but I was referring to the Mumbai style Udupi hotels, which are absent here.
Since I enjoy Indian food (or at least what they have in NYC), I surfed over to wikipedia and found this[0] which talks about Upudi cuisine. I am not familiar enough to know what region food come from. oh well!
[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udupi_cuisine
@Kevin:
I learnt to make Undiyo at home as i did not like the
food in the hotels here.
Yeah, i have tasted the \Indian\ food in N.America, and honestly its no where close to what you get here in India. There I found that even if one cooks Indian food (using the same masala i use in India) at home, it tastes very different, probably (i think) because of the natural vegetables (not the bio-engineered vegetables which are tasteless,imho) you will find here.
Actually the Udipi restaurants in Bangalore are different ...the same Udipi restaurants of Bombay will cook and serve food a wee bit differently to cater to the local palette
Geographically, culturally and cusine wise its impossible to categorize the indian food as its really very vast and varies from state to state and usually very adaptable. Its best eaten than written about
This site[0] seem to have lots of indian dish pictures!
This seems like a quite complicated dish involving a lot of indian foodstuffs x-)
Now to see if anyone here makes it.
[0] http://sigfood.org/Specials/Undhiyu_Photo_Recipe
@vidya: Upmarket restaurants in BLR ? Grr... my piece of plastic won't stretch till there. However, having had to travel a bit over the metros in South India, I have found that North Indian food sans the heavy dollops of clarified butter is really good on the palate. However, it is Bengali food (and that's the way we eat at home) that is missing - possible career option there for me
@kevin:
but very very tasty. I should blog the
recipie as my mom cant understand how i cant remember proportions ...especially
since she just told me how-to yesterday, not to forget my escalating phone
bills 
ah yes, undiyo is complicated
@sankarshan:
hehe, now that is a career option that, besides raking in the moolah, will ensure you never want for anything.