* being vegetarian
Posted on October 24th, 2006 by Alex. Filed under India.
Narayanan from Kerala invited me one day to have real Indian food (he said that the mess does not provide proper food). So he cooked all kind of fancy stuff and we ate it from banana leaves. Narayanan (or I call him Naru, because I was not able to pronounce his name properly) was a vegetarian. Being a vegetarian in South India means that he did not eat any meat and eggs. Neither he went to restaurants which offered vegetarian food beside meals with meat, because it was cooked on the same stove and the same wooden spoons were used for stirring.
I have some Indian friends here in Germany and when they celebrate birthday, I usually bake a cake containing eggs. I always inform the people on the party about it hoping that they refuse to eat the cake so that I have more. It is a really tasty one called “Elsässer Apfelkuchen”, but the good taste is always the reason, why I have always the smallest piece. But I have to admit that when I bake it, I have a second one at home. 
September 21st, 2010 at 7:00 am
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