3 ms·

> south, particularly in a Brahmin household, you will have one sambhar, one rasam, three vegetable currys This is not even remotely typical.

by unmole 5y ago

worik 5y ago
>> south, particularly in a Brahmin household, you will have one sambhar, one rasam, three vegetable currys > This is not even remotely typical. Digress! What is typical? It is always good to learn about people's lifestyles....
- unmole 5y ago
  South India consists of fives states and one Union Territory, all with different languages, culture and culinary styles. A meal in a Brahmin household in Hyderabad will be very different to one in Chennai with probably only rice being the common feature. Curry is too generic to be a useful descriptor. It's hard to make broad generalizations. But having been to all six divisions and having lived in three of them, I feel very confident in saying that a household that cooks three different curries, sambar and rasam for a single meal is very atypical. What GP described sounds closer to a restaurant set course meal and not something a household would cook on a day to day basis.
  - AmericanChopper 5y ago
    I helped prepare lunch in a Punjabi household this afternoon, and on the stove there was rice, two subjis, chai and a roti tawa all at the same time. I would consider this a typical (if not modest) lunch routine amongst the many Punjabi households in which I have had lunch.
    - unmole 5y ago
      > and on the stove there was rice, two subjis, chai and a roti tawa all at the same time. So, they had 5 burners? Anyways, my comment was more about the number of dishes. Two curries as in your example is fairly typical. Three curries, a sambar and a rasam like the GP said is definitely not. Chai at lunchtime does sound strange to me but then again, I'm not really familiar with Punjabi culinary preferences.

3 ms·

> south, particularly in a Brahmin household, you will have one sambhar, one rasam, three vegetable currys This is not even remotely typical.

by unmole 5y ago

> south, particularly in a Brahmin household, you will have one sambhar, one rasam, three vegetable currys This is not even remotely typical.

worik 5y ago
>> south, particularly in a Brahmin household, you will have one sambhar, one rasam, three vegetable currys > This is not even remotely typical. Digress! What is typical? It is always good to learn about people's lifestyles....
- unmole 5y ago
  South India consists of fives states and one Union Territory, all with different languages, culture and culinary styles. A meal in a Brahmin household in Hyderabad will be very different to one in Chennai with probably only rice being the common feature. Curry is too generic to be a useful descriptor. It's hard to make broad generalizations. But having been to all six divisions and having lived in three of them, I feel very confident in saying that a household that cooks three different curries, sambar and rasam for a single meal is very atypical. What GP described sounds closer to a restaurant set course meal and not something a household would cook on a day to day basis.
  - AmericanChopper 5y ago
    I helped prepare lunch in a Punjabi household this afternoon, and on the stove there was rice, two subjis, chai and a roti tawa all at the same time. I would consider this a typical (if not modest) lunch routine amongst the many Punjabi households in which I have had lunch.
    - unmole 5y ago
      > and on the stove there was rice, two subjis, chai and a roti tawa all at the same time. So, they had 5 burners? Anyways, my comment was more about the number of dishes. Two curries as in your example is fairly typical. Three curries, a sambar and a rasam like the GP said is definitely not. Chai at lunchtime does sound strange to me but then again, I'm not really familiar with Punjabi culinary preferences.