Millions of Food Blogs -- Roti

I frequently do research on the Internet about food. Today, I did so on roti after reading Pushpesh Pant's article in Times today.

Wikipedia was a great help in telling me the difference between chapati, phulka, roti, naan, kulcha, paratha, etc. The French pride themselves in having some 365 (?) different cheeses! I have a feeling that we should be having at least that many number of rotis. Just imagine the variations we have in parathas. The plain paratha itself can come in three shapes, round, square and triangular! Stuffed parathas --well, there are as many as there are fillings!

There are millions of food blogs and each one more delicious than the other. It is amazing how you can now practically find any recipe you want in any of these blogs.

I salute all these bloggers -- specially, all these ladies abroad -- who are keeping our traditions flying abroad. They are preserving our culture.

There are a large number of GSB or amchigele or konkani (not to be mistaken for those from the konkan region) bloggers too. Many are active in the Konkani Amchi Food group on Facebook and every day someone is posting wonderful pictures of konkani, Indian and world cuisine and their recipes. Good discussions also take place.

Thanks to all these bloggers and those who maintain various sites on food. We are never short of information on food.

Konkani Amchi Food Web Site and Facebook Group

If you are a lover of Konkani food, then you must join the Facebook group:

www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=182144290454&ref=ts

They also have a web site:

Konkani Amchi Food Group

Both the site and the Facebook page is rich with photos.

Udupi Cuisine and Mangalore Cuisine are quite famous. Konkani Cuisine is by and large from the same region.

Do not confuse with the Kokan regional cuisine -- which is the cuisine from the Kokan region of Maharashtra. Unfortunately, it is also spelt Konkan and misleading gives rise to Konkani Cusine. It is also called Malvani Cuisine.