# Indian Cuisine

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Category: Cuisine
Slides: 30
Updated: 2026-05-15T22:17:49.880Z
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## Summary

"What is Indian food?" is the wrong question. India is more linguistically and agriculturally diverse than Europe; its food is no more a single cuisine than European food is. Key sections include: Indian Cuisine.; Opening The wrong question.; Chapter I The spice cabinet.; Chapter II Tadka.; Chapter III Punjabi cooking.; Chapter IV Bengali cooking.; Chapter V Gujarati cooking.; Chapter VI Tamil cooking.; Chapter VII Kerala cooking.; Chapter VIII Vegetarian India..

## Slide Outline

1. Indian Cuisine.
2. Opening The wrong question.
3. Chapter I The spice cabinet.
4. Chapter II Tadka.
5. Chapter III Punjabi cooking.
6. Chapter IV Bengali cooking.
7. Chapter V Gujarati cooking.
8. Chapter VI Tamil cooking.
9. Chapter VII Kerala cooking.
10. Chapter VIII Vegetarian India.
11. Chapter IX The Mughal layer.
12. Chapter X The British inheritance.
13. Chapter XI Manish Mehrotra and the modern Indian restaurant.
14. Chapter XII Priya Krishna and the home-cook generation.
15. Chapter XIII Indian breads.
16. Chapter XIV Street food.
17. Chapter XV Sweets — the mithai tradition.
18. Chapter XVI The coastal cuisines.
19. Chapter XVII The Deccan and Hyderabad.
20. Chapter XVIII The Northeast — cuisine outside the canon.
21. Chapter XIX What Indians drink.
22. Chapter XX The pickle universe.
23. Chapter XXI The Indian home kitchen.
24. Chapter XXII Twenty-five works.
25. Chapter XXIII Watch & read.
26. Chapter XXIV If you want to start.
27. Chapter XXV Why Indian.
28. Chapter XXVI The next decade.
29. Chapter XXVII What's still hard.
30. The end of the deck.

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