What Nobel prize winners eat
November 2nd 2007 05:46
If you are a Nobel Prize Winner and an Indian at that Like R K Pacauri who recieved the Nobel Prize as head of IPCC along with Al Gore chances of you being a vegetarian are very high and so are the chances of you being fond of chat.
Now what is chat? It has nothing to do with the internet, it has been around much before the chip (not Lays but the silicon one that PCs use). Chat is the vegetarian equivalent of a juicy steak. So make mine raring to tingle the tongue.
Chat comes in various forms shapes and sizes, some of it is made of potatoes and fried like Aloo Tikki or potato paste formed into a small flat round thick biscuit like shape. The fat to fry it is usually grease made from cows milk. This is called Desi Ghee.
R K Pachauri spent his childhood in Lucknow in a school called La Martiniere. He spent his evenings loafing around Hazratganj the main shopping centre and his favourite food was chat in Aminabad and eating from a stall called King of Chat.
A common chat meal comprises Paani Batasha or Gol Guppa. This is a small golf ball sized wheat ball hollow and filled with lemon juice and masala to give it a zing. It bursts inside the mouth and gives you a zip which makes you go slurp.
The aloo tikki is fried and served in yogurt and taramind chutney for flavour. The masalas and powdered red pepper and ginger give it the right pep needed to make you perspire as you gulp it down. The idea behind eating chat is to make it a mouth watering experience. which is exactly what you have to do after eating chat, swallow copious amounts of water to cool the fires singeing your tongue. So those of you who want to try out Pachauri's favourite food may do so but take your bottles of chilled drinking water along.
Now what is chat? It has nothing to do with the internet, it has been around much before the chip (not Lays but the silicon one that PCs use). Chat is the vegetarian equivalent of a juicy steak. So make mine raring to tingle the tongue.
Chat comes in various forms shapes and sizes, some of it is made of potatoes and fried like Aloo Tikki or potato paste formed into a small flat round thick biscuit like shape. The fat to fry it is usually grease made from cows milk. This is called Desi Ghee.
R K Pachauri spent his childhood in Lucknow in a school called La Martiniere. He spent his evenings loafing around Hazratganj the main shopping centre and his favourite food was chat in Aminabad and eating from a stall called King of Chat.
A common chat meal comprises Paani Batasha or Gol Guppa. This is a small golf ball sized wheat ball hollow and filled with lemon juice and masala to give it a zing. It bursts inside the mouth and gives you a zip which makes you go slurp.
The aloo tikki is fried and served in yogurt and taramind chutney for flavour. The masalas and powdered red pepper and ginger give it the right pep needed to make you perspire as you gulp it down. The idea behind eating chat is to make it a mouth watering experience. which is exactly what you have to do after eating chat, swallow copious amounts of water to cool the fires singeing your tongue. So those of you who want to try out Pachauri's favourite food may do so but take your bottles of chilled drinking water along.
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