If you follow Indian recipes, you might have noticed that every long-listed recipe must contain cumin seeds. This shows how essential cumin seeds are in North and South Indian cooking.

South Indian and North Indian chicken curries differ in their consistency, use of spices, technique, and acidity levels, but each promises to leave gastronomes in a food coma. Scroll down to read how ...

Chess culture differs greatly between North and South India. Vantika Agrawal highlights the lack of recognition for chess ...

Since then, he has continued to deliver a harmonic blend of North and South Indian cuisine to the Ann Arbor community. Ramanujam described his approach to Madras Masala’s menu in an interview with The ...

Nevertheless, the north-south civilisational differences that triggered the Dravidian movement’s anti-north Indian pitch in the early 20th century did not vanish.

“In the South, there’s one thing different. It’s called Curry leaf. Every dish is with Curry leaf from the potato Curry, from the dosas, from every filling you make,“ Singh says.

It could be adding tempered black mustard seeds, the most irreplaceable South Indian seasoning, to the North Indian channa masala. Or it could be using the very North Indian paneer as a topping for ...