AIM should write a book on this, it would be a topseller for sure.

abhinav ji is looking smart today :) like 10 yrs younger

I think AIM should give up his profession as a Defence Analyst and become a full-time Frugal Indian food blogger cataloguing Indian cuisines and smash Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb.

Fun fact : Basmati rice that's used in biryani and pulao was first grown in India.

Fascinating discussion. I like Abhijit when he is not talking about Indian efforts to industrialize and Tejas.

the word "mirch" comes from the sanskrit word "maricha"(literally.black in colour (means pepper)). In hindi , it's called the kaali mirch. In the telugu language ,we call it mirpa kaya (green chilly) or mirchi. we have literary work from 14th century by Srinatha called Kaashi Khandam, in which he describes the food served before the God and he uses the word " Maricha dhuli phaala" means the mixed with black pepper powder the aroma is so appetising.( we call pepper as Miriam in Telugu(loaned from sanskrit turned it into a tatbhava word).

AIM should write a book on Indian history. .

I was getting multiple zomato add throughout the episode 😂😂😂

Great to see Abhijit. It was also very good to see his mother on the other program he did.

We need part 2 where you concentrate on Indian food especially eastern cuisine

Guru FrugalIndian ji ki Jai Ho! Jai Ho 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Please more food podcast. This was a gem of an episode.

I feel like going one by one to all Abhijeet Iyer's videos and liking them and coming back later to watch them.

Hail mitra....I was seriously waiting for something like this

how on earth does a narrative like that not get called out in these globe trotting times....shame on them and kudos to you two for laying it all out 'on the table'!

Abhijit is absolutely brilliant ! Very thoughtful of Abhinav to get him to talk on the topic. Looking forward to another round on Indian cuisine.

Wondered where these nomads grew their rice that suddenly biryani is their gift to us. Indian spices were exported all thru'out the world.

One of the best episodes, thank you Abhinav and Abhijit

Now I can proudly eat Biryani...😋❤️

You guys are an absolute pleasure to listen keep up the good word

excellent discussion, I have these doubts for a very long. I stay outside India. I knew the value of Indian food and how different it is. when ppl say Biryani came from Muslim nations, I am clueless, bcz most of the Muslim nations outside India never eat rice or very little rice matter, then how Biryani came from outside is the big question. even I use to argue with my Muslim friends also but they continue to argue and try to divert the topics, especially Pakistan guys..

Loved it, abhinav and abhijit rock

Thank you for another informative discussion. Always puzzled me why our dumb ancestors cultivated all these different varieties of spices, rice etc for millenniums when they did not even know how to cook them according to the Ganga-jamani school of Indian history, and needed the mughals to tell us how to cook and eat them 😄😄

What a wonderful discussion! AIM is an amazingly knowledgeable guy.

me who is starving but still wacthing this video hmmmmmmmm,intersting

Thanks Abhinav and Abhijeet for another Fantastic episode.....

Aim can have a podcast doing live cooking, and we all would love it

Also, a few Sanskrit texts described "palanna", which means rice cooked with meat. AIM should write a book on it and smash Indian food history as foreign gift theory.

Absolutely love this discussion ! Thanks Abhinav and Abhijit !!

Most fascinating discussion that I never expected to hear on this channel! I thoroughly enjoyed it and hope you make the second part a reality.

Enjoyed this thoroughly. AIM, write a book on this so that ppl understand the nuances. It's rare to find many who will appreciate the subtle taste of Brot dipped in olive oil.

Thanks for a fun-tastic session!!!

Amazing! Thank you very much for this discussion. Looking forward to more discussions on food.

Abhijeet Bhai has enlightened me with his depth of knowledge about food, thanks so much for that.

Thanks for busting great many myths 🙏

Good topic to discuss, love your channel abhinav

Yup this is what I need on the first day of new year...discussion on food 😂

Unbelievably good talk 🙏🙏

Brilliant.....looking forward for the Indian cuisine session..

Its surprising that only a handful of countries in the world have such high levels of spices whereas rest of the world has mostly very bland cooking

1. Completely agree with all the points on food. I like the data point and substantial support you put behind your theory. 2. As a Tamizh speaker, loved the way you pronounced Senai and Seppan Kizhangu. 3. Additional point, all Tamil Brahmin food cooked even for important events including death anniversaries will avoid chillies and the assortment of vegetables you had mentioned that are new world vegetables. 4. The list is based on “Nama or Roopa”. For example, no beet root 1. Because it is new world and 2. It looks like blood. And snake gourds are avoided because it looks like, exactly, snakes.

This is one of the greatest discussion i have ever heard. Abhijit Iyer Mitra should stop wasting time commenting on domestic issues, he should be sharing his wisdom only about external aspects

WOW THAT'S BRILLIANT.

Cunin seeds only as spice in meat was also common in ancient Himachal Infact breads cooked were rarely wheat. It was barley, millets etc. So even this couldve been an Indian (Himalayan) Influence westward. Tibet Bharat trade routes passed through our villages.

Indian food far most sophisticated evalvoed thing. No country or culture or region match to this level of cooking complexity , taste and culture influence on food. Question is why India or Indian establishment not able to market this. We can make very good market from our food, if KFC, MC serving funny food. Why we can not build MNC companies with food. We need little RND to suit outsiders and marketing..

Chilli was present India. Chamba had chuk, Assam chilli hottest. Native chilli was small. Hence chilli in Kashmiri hindu food but no tomato. The foreign potato in himalayas is called prong(videshi foreign) aloo and native (also called ghandiyali) is called deshad (Deshi) aloo.

Haha what a session! Taklu on 🔥! The gems of info he brings from his exp are amazing! And thankfully atleast in this session, he didnt slip as usual onto Indian/bharatiya inferiority complex!

Abhijit’s explanation of “Koshari” reminds me of something my mom said they served to their pet dog at the end of the day called “Sani” ... basically all the leftovers of the day mixed together

As there's one thing that says that the history is written by the victor, this Chatterati has pulverized it. The info has influenced to rewrite the history by peeping through what flows into the elementary canal. It's great to learn how Cuisines is A driving factor in determining the background of any civilization. Thumbs up.

Kya baat hain, mera toh pet bhar gaya. Itna ghuma Russia se Kerala and North Korea se America wah bhi wah, bas ek paan ki kami thi, woh bhi pura kar detey toh!!!! 😂😂😂

Enlightening

Thoroughly enjoyed the discussion. I realize I had fallen for the theory that the North Indian food came from Iran and Central Asia.

One of the issues is that since today in common parlance, words like biryani/pulav/kabab, which have iranic/turkic etymologies are used... people assume the item is also from there. it's like saying Hamburgers are from Germany, because the name references a somewhat similar German item.

Very informative ! Thank you Abhijit ji for enlightening on biriyani. Kababs etc. Because we Indians are really brainy, we have great variety of yummilicious foods every 50 kilometres! Thank Abhinav Prakash ji, for this podcast.👏👌🙏😊

Totally right on the religious food front. No chill, tomato, onion or potatoes

An interesting dialogue

Yes , discussion on indian food . Pitha , Tilkut , wiranj from Magadh region

This one was hilarious 😂😂👌👍🙏

puri temple only traditional veg are used

If you can do a episode on 'Roma' people (people with Indic origin).

Wow 🤯

Abhinav, Abhijit, Kushal, Sham are like modern day Yogis 🙏 Opened my eyes ❤️

Damn this guy is a genius!!! 🙏🏼

Please recommend books on Indian food history. Grateful for such a wonderful talk. :)

Very intresting, add to education

Best video👍

Wonderful conversation.. A suggestion - you could substantiate the various explanation, description of food with a reference picture... This will get everyone going.. In case if it becomes talkative for some.. Come to think of it, you could do this for most of your podcasts.. Thanks

We gotta preserve the knowledge of AIM....

Interesting ! !

In North and east there's mustard oil culture -A.I.M We use mustard to make 'besoro' in Odisha, if u can find it near you ,do taste

Om

Another great discussion, yet again. Just one fact: there are many sweet rice preparation in prasadam in indian temples that has dry fruits. It's called Kanika. It's also common in South Indian thalis as prasad given before start of food. Agree, in Jagannath temple kitchen (you need to learn it to know unbroken culinary history of Hindus). They don't use green chillies, only black pepper & ginger is used. Same goes with tomato & potatoes.

so koshari is like eating thair sadam with ripe banana lol. also I can see AIM's contempt for poonjabi couisine which has invaded all our sensibilities coming into full form on a longer discussion about indian cuisine.

Marking this to watch later, I love food and a porker like Iyyerval gives good foodie knowledge

Abhinav, can you please have a Abhijit explain us below in independent session. Would be really helpful for us understand the history of the middle East- how the Judaism came to fore from Abraham. Then the testaments and prophesy. Torah, it's relation with Old testament from the Holy Bible and Holy Quran. How Roman and Constantinople played a role in monotheism as well as rise of Christianity

Looking forward to discussion on Indian food.

Abhijit, as a theoretician about food, should do a podcast or a series of podcasts with a practitioner like Ranveer Brar. I am curious what Brar will make of these ideas.

What is the dish made in the Middle east I ate in Kuwait it is mutton with spinach in a sort of stew , I was told by an Iranian that it was from Irian I've forgotten what he called it ?

Make this guy write a book about the food history, would love to read and recommend

Leke rahenge azadi Iyer supremacy se azadi Tum kuchh bhi karlo...azadi Iyengar hum sharminda tera katil zinda hai

Namaste

Nice

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Any influence of Indian cuisine on foreign cuisines? I had a Thai colleague who said a lot of Thai curries come from India. Besides Thailand, I am not aware of any other influences.

Hing was considered to be native food since it was got from Afghanistan which was a part of the old cultural area of the subcontinent. However even this is not used in the food for sraad ( srardham) in the Telugu And Kannada states

Please write a book on it AIM.

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Potato is American ‘Spanish’ introduced it to the word it is called “Patata”. Initialled called “Papa” in the local native term, then Spanish called it Patata. When introduced to England later came to be known as Potato. I am a Maharashtrian and we are not good at corrupting the original foreign names, hence here it is called “Batata” since in Portuguese it’s called Batata which was introduced by them in India. Again Tomato is Tomato in Marathi.

Please conduct an episode on Abhijit's visit to North Korea

AIM point on It is OON Soru meaninging Meat + rice

@13:25 Abhinav regretting every decision made in his life..lol

Do a discussion on food in Vedic and classical period 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Biriyani is from Farsi Birinj, Birinj is from Sanskrit Vrihi. Jalebi is from Sanskrit Jalavallika

Today was my fasting...

Haven't been to Egypt or had egyptian food so can't comment but food in Istanbul and persian food in the US is really good.

Abhijit why forget Karnataka all the time ?

The word central asian name pulao came from the sanskrit Polanno. which means meat rice. Similarly we have ghritanno which means ghee rice

biryani ke bighair zindagi ka kia zouq he?

Abhinav is looking dapper as fuck!