preethi does poriyal

by MaxEntropy_Man Mon Nov 03, 2014 9:40 pm

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/learning-to-cook-south-indian-food-with-the-help-of-some-experts/2014/11/03/628429e0-5d2b-11e4-9f3a-7e28799e0549_story.html?hpid=z13

by goodcitizn Mon Nov 03, 2014 11:38 pm

It must be fashionable for career-driven Tambrahm ladies to brag that they need GPS to find the kitchen, not even know how to cut a carrot.

There are no measuring cups or spoons in our home. Ask my mother how to make rice and she suggests that one can “take two fingers water, and one finger rice,” or something to that effect.

There is no such expression in Tamil. I feel sorry for her mother.

by bw Mon Nov 03, 2014 11:51 pm

goodcitizn wrote:It must be fashionable for career-driven Tambrahm ladies to brag that they need GPS to find the kitchen, not even know how to cut a carrot.

There are no measuring cups or spoons in our home. Ask my mother how to make rice and she suggests that one can “take two fingers water, and one finger rice,” or something to that effect.

There is no such expression in Tamil. I feel sorry for her mother.

i felt the same especially when i read the following - couldn't she have used an electric rice cooker?

a big drama queen! *shaking head*

Rice is in my blood. But I’ve never been able to cook it.

Oh, sure, I have charred it. I have pulled it from that rice cooker so waterlogged that, as my friends arrived for the Indian feast I had promised, I sobbed large, panicked tears.

by goodcitizn Tue Nov 04, 2014 12:06 am

bw wrote:
goodcitizn wrote:It must be fashionable for career-driven Tambrahm ladies to brag that they need GPS to find the kitchen, not even know how to cut a carrot.

There are no measuring cups or spoons in our home. Ask my mother how to make rice and she suggests that one can “take two fingers water, and one finger rice,” or something to that effect.

There is no such expression in Tamil. I feel sorry for her mother.

i felt the same especially when i read the following - couldn't she have used an electric rice cooker?

a big drama queen! *shaking head*

Rice is in my blood. But I’ve never been able to cook it.

Oh, sure, I have charred it. I have pulled it from that rice cooker so waterlogged that, as my friends arrived for the Indian feast I had promised, I sobbed large, panicked tears.

She is not a particularly good writer despite her repeated attempts to sound hip nor what she says is totally true. She lumps all Indian American ladies in her category. My niece, who was born and brought up in the U.S., is a very decent cook of traditional South Indian food. I am sure there are many others like her.

Yes, a typical drama queen. Ugh-inducing.

by Kris Tue Nov 04, 2014 12:16 am

bw wrote:
goodcitizn wrote:It must be fashionable for career-driven Tambrahm ladies to brag that they need GPS to find the kitchen, not even know how to cut a carrot.

There are no measuring cups or spoons in our home. Ask my mother how to make rice and she suggests that one can “take two fingers water, and one finger rice,” or something to that effect.

There is no such expression in Tamil. I feel sorry for her mother.

i felt the same especially when i read the following - couldn't she have used an electric rice cooker?

a big drama queen! *shaking head*

Rice is in my blood. But I’ve never been able to cook it.

Oh, sure, I have charred it. I have pulled it from that rice cooker so waterlogged that, as my friends arrived for the Indian feast I had promised, I sobbed large, panicked tears.

>>>Good point. I think I screwed it up just once and that was the first time.

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