Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Food and Temples

The food in India is the best healthy food that one can have on earth if you would like to be in good shape especially for vegetarian people. When walking on the streets, the smell of spices and chilles makes you cough, but at the same time is so pleseant. They tend to cook most of the food with coconut oil. Once in the restaurants, the smell of the different curries makes me sneeze, and when I taste the food, I can feel dizzy and sweaty and sometimes I get a headache. I don't know if it is because of my post menapause, but it is a feeling of being slightly drunk, and yet of feeling good as well. I love the smell of anise, asafran, and all kinds of very mistical herbs. When I asked the waitresses, I do not understand the names because they speak English in heavy Indian accents. When I told them wow it is so delicious, they just laugh wondering what am I saying probably.

Temples
It is so sad for me to see these amazing structures that represent the exploitation and suffering of the Indian people and more so now. It was amazing to see this humungus concrete temple which was built in the 11 century and to think of the people who built it and their lives.

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