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Firm about Food

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  Almost all of us have the lingering memory of a taste with us.   We try to recreate the memory either by trying to cook like our parents (who are the ones mostly responsible for embedding it in the first place) or by visiting those haunts which serve to placate the palette.   We carry and care for the memory so much that we try to revisit it often, no matter where we are.   Nothing wrong with that except for the fact that sometimes we are in regions which are not conducive with either having the right ingredients present there or the weather is favourable for that kind of food.   Every region has fruits, vegetables, spices, pulses native to that place because of its weather. Cultivated in that area because of the soil and water conditions present. Also, the cuisine is developed with these native ingredients to combat with the weather and climatic conditions there.   For example, curd rice is eaten in South India to beat the heat but imagine eating curd rice when