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		<title>How to cook a Musa Pseudostem</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[C Y Gopinath discovers how to cook the delicious dish that killed the tender coconut tree but completely re-colonized his gut. Take a medium-sized banana. Chop the pseudostem finely and boil till tender. Spice it and eat while costive. There, that’s how you do it. I’ve given the recipe away. You can amaze your friends [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cygopi.wordpress.com&#038;blog=789886&#038;post=52&#038;subd=cygopi&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Read and see</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For decades, this classic set of three books has been the last word on authentic South Indian cooking, says C Y Gopinath May I offer you some light tiffin? No? A cool drink then? What about a curd bath? It&#8217;s guaranteed to cool you off. According to the instructions in the third book of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cygopi.wordpress.com&#038;blog=789886&#038;post=44&#038;subd=cygopi&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons from lasoon</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:47:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>C Y Gopinath</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It might keep teenage vampires away but when you use it well in the kitchen, the unassuming garlic can unite the most diverse people    SMITH AND JONES GRIND GARLIC AT NASHIK. In case you think this is one of those phrases administered to suspected drunks to check their sobriety, it is not. Smith &#38; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cygopi.wordpress.com&#038;blog=789886&#038;post=42&#038;subd=cygopi&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Muri Blues</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:43:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a connection between young love and Calcutta’s jhalmuri   FROM THE DARKNESS OF KOLKATA’S LAKE GARDENS come the sounds of lovers holding hands. Bet you’ve never heard the sound of lovers holding hands before, but I have. It’s not the usual slurps and slobs and chwoops and fevered whisperings, but more a steady [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cygopi.wordpress.com&#038;blog=789886&#038;post=43&#038;subd=cygopi&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The sorry story of the uttappam</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Oct 2007 04:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The uttappam was feeling threatened by globalization — who am I? why does the pizza look like me? what should I do? C Y Gopinath counsels   It was a humid day, the sort that dampens all urges towards food. I was sitting in my clinic, toying desultorily with some listless peanuts, when I sensed that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cygopi.wordpress.com&#038;blog=789886&#038;post=39&#038;subd=cygopi&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A chip of the old Nayak</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a clear case of judicio-culinary activism, C Y Gopinath is put on trial for declaring Rama Nayak’s wafers to be the best in the universe as we know it. Yes, M’lud, I am reasonably certain that it was not an Indoor Locker. Or Indoor Laukar, as they tell me its erroneously called in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cygopi.wordpress.com&#038;blog=789886&#038;post=38&#038;subd=cygopi&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The future of Gobi Manchurian</title>
		<link>http://cygopi.wordpress.com/2007/03/04/the-future-of-gobi-manchurian-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2007 19:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It turns out that Manchuria was unaware that its name had been appended to the phool gobi. When the news leaked out, all hell broke loose, reveals C Y Gopinath “WE HAVE NO CHOICE,” said the Manchurian National Security Advisor. “This must be considered an act of war. By annexing Manchuria to a cauliflower, India [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cygopi.wordpress.com&#038;blog=789886&#038;post=37&#038;subd=cygopi&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The sous chef passes a fishy test</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2007 19:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[‘WE’RE HAVING A SEAFOOD FESTIVAL!’ said the voice from Bombay’s SeaRock Sheraton, in the good old days before the bomb blast that closed it down. “We thought you might be interested in covering it in your amazing blog, Gopium!” This meant that I was being invited to check out some free food at a 5-star [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cygopi.wordpress.com&#038;blog=789886&#038;post=36&#038;subd=cygopi&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t curry, be happy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2007 04:34:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A South Indian, a Punjabi, a Frenchman and an old East India Company hand meet to figure out what curry really is. C Y Gopinath was a fly on the wall ONE DAY, APPUSWAMY, CHOPRA, SMITH AND BEAUVILLIERS finally met to thrash out a matter that had been troubling serious cooks all over the world: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cygopi.wordpress.com&#038;blog=789886&#038;post=29&#038;subd=cygopi&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Royal Picnic of the Full Moon</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2007 04:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a certain month of the year, the Pandiya kings of the south changed into gourmets under the full moon, discovers C. Y. Gopinath WHAT DID GOOD SOUTH INDIAN PANDIYA KINGS do on full moon nights in April? According to an unusually reliable source, they would take their wives and children to the riverside and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cygopi.wordpress.com&#038;blog=789886&#038;post=28&#038;subd=cygopi&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Syrian Christian coconut</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2007 04:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[C Y Gopinath presents a possibly imaginary sweet that is made only once a year by certain Keralite families no-one seems to know about ONCE UPON A TIME, long ago, in the enchanted part of India known as the Backwaters, there lived a simple villager named Mohan. Thin but wiry, with jet black hair and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cygopi.wordpress.com&#038;blog=789886&#038;post=27&#038;subd=cygopi&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A pulao with olives?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2007 04:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That’s not the only surprise in store when Ishtiyaque Qureshi decides to take over the kitchen, discovers C Y Gopinath ISHTIYAQUE QURESHI CONTROLS FOOD. The way a pet-lover controls his pet. If he doesn’t want his onions to brown just yet, they will patiently await his further instructions. If he wants the meat not to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cygopi.wordpress.com&#038;blog=789886&#038;post=26&#038;subd=cygopi&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The cauliflower becomes a real man</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2007 03:58:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The cauliflower has an identity problem but Suman Bakshi knows exactly how to solve it, says C Y Gopinath YOU SURELY KNOW THE STORY of the poor, deluded cauliflower. He tried to join the World Wrestling Federation, but was rejected on account of his ridiculous assertion that he should be treated as equal to beef. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cygopi.wordpress.com&#038;blog=789886&#038;post=25&#038;subd=cygopi&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The search for gnocchi</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2007 14:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even if you can’t pronounce it, you can’t stop it from being a surefire hit, says C Y Gopinath THE SEARCH FOR GNOCCHI IS OVER. It ended about two weeks ago, on page 512 of the Larousse Gastronomique. Silly of me not to have thought of it before, but I’m known for that sort of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cygopi.wordpress.com&#038;blog=789886&#038;post=20&#038;subd=cygopi&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mamma mia! And not married yet?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2007 14:53:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you’re a hungry bachelor and can make a Mama Mia dinner all by yourself, you might never need to think of anything else, says C. Y. Gopinath I WAS A HUNGRY BACHELOR ONE SUNDAY EVENING IN DELHI. It was winter, bracing and very cold, when the stomach like to pretend it is celebrating its [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cygopi.wordpress.com&#038;blog=789886&#038;post=19&#038;subd=cygopi&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding rasam</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2007 14:50:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s all connected with pattern recognition. For instance, you can tell the difference between a pizza and an uthappam without straining your corpus callosum. One is based on dough, the other has batter; there&#8217;s wonderful melted cheese on one, but if the other has cheese, it&#8217;s a fake, there&#8217;s stuff under the cheese in one, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cygopi.wordpress.com&#038;blog=789886&#038;post=18&#038;subd=cygopi&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Mrs Ehlwe cooked</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2007 14:48:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The best little meal in Cairo may be had in the shadow of the Sphinx, where lives a taxi-driver&#8217;s wife who knows just how to treat chicken WITHIN TWO HOURS OF REACHING CAIRO, I was tucking into a hearty Messianic breakfast with a faintly self-congratulatory smile on my face. CYG, I said to myself, you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cygopi.wordpress.com&#038;blog=789886&#038;post=17&#038;subd=cygopi&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vada way to go</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2007 14:46:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shanti Oberoi makes better dahi vadas than Sushil Jolly makes better dahi vadas than Vaishali makes better dahi vadas than LMB at Jaipur VAISHALI MAKES BETTER DAHI VADAS than the Jaipur’s Lakshmi Mishtan Bhandar. But her mother-in-law, Sushil Jolly, makes even better dahi vadas than her and Vaishali is the first one to admit it. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cygopi.wordpress.com&#038;blog=789886&#038;post=16&#038;subd=cygopi&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The future of Gobi Manchurian</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2007 14:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It turns out Manchuria had been unaware that its name had been appended to the phool gobi “WE HAVE NO CHOICE,” said the Manchurian National Security Advisor. “This must be considered an act of war. By annexing Manchuria to a cauliflower, India has breached every protocol known to international politics.” There was silence in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cygopi.wordpress.com&#038;blog=789886&#038;post=15&#038;subd=cygopi&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The curious tastes of Ishtiyaque Qureshi</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2007 14:39:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[C Y Gopinath profiles one of the most inventive cooks in Mumbai “TRY SOMETHING NEW,” said Ishtiyaque Qureshi. “Milk pudding.” The 25-year-old chef was wearing his deadpan face, the one he used when he had done some devilry in his kitchen. The pudding looked perfectly ordinary: I stirred it, noted some blanched almonds floating in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cygopi.wordpress.com&#038;blog=789886&#038;post=14&#038;subd=cygopi&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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