food

[roshini]

last evening we went to a lativan guy's place for his kid's birthday party and knowing I am a vegetarian he had 8 vege items and just oe chicken item on the menu. I felt very touched. ALso everything wa different from the Indian cusine like for starters he had stuffed bell peppers in a cocunut sour cream based gravy. It was nice, then they had beet

Comments

[seizureinquiet]

8 vege items for you - that was so touching me thinks. Yes, it is always interesting to mingle with different cultures and you have so much opportunities to do so here - if you open your mind :)

[latelyontime]

You do have very different friends..

As for the different cultures cooking the same stuff differently, here is a nice conversation that had happened to me some time ago.

I was in France as a cultural exchange student and living with a French family with kids my age. Still struggling to find my French, over dinner once, I had looked at Sylvie and asked, "How do you say Ketchup in French?"

Without batting an eyelid, she said "You don't." They will have tomoato sauce but they will die before they call it ketchup.