literary cookbook ....

Aravinda Pillalamarri (ap191@columbia.edu)
Thu, 18 Jan 1996 10:52:23 -0500 (EST)

nothing like curling up with a good book on a long winter's night, with
some allam-paccimerapaka cookies baking in the oven ... last week I
posted a recipie for allam-paccimerapakaya cookies. did anyone try it?
just wondering. I was just imagining what book would go just right with
these. Something pungent, and depending on how many paccimerapakayas and
how finely you diced them, something to make you cry .... and yet sweet
and filling

any suggestions?

I have another favourite recipie, whcih I call "broken heart" the name
came to me all at once, when I was moving out of my apartment in Jamaica
Plain, and a classmate of mine was moving in. We made lunch together on
my last and her first day in the place. It was hearty beet-root kUra
with allam-paccimerapakaya, kobbari, pesarapappu .. the works. As I
stirred it for the final time I pronounced dramatically, "I now christen
thee, broken-heart! the beets are red, the ginger is strong and painful,
the peppers make you cry, and the coconut is soothing ... really, to
appreciate this vanTa you must have a profound sense of tragedy,
nourished by the best in telugu literature. any nominations?

-- Aravinda

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