history of india

am i guessing right? you are thinking why he is writing on history of india on a blog which meant for curries.... but indias history changed with its boundries only because of its wealth of abudant spices and trade with west thats why from alexander to other greeks .. moguls and finally british everyone took share of it and distinctively changed historical pages and boundrylines at each crescent of the decades and centuries.
while i will keep the historical information of indian history related to curry and its further travel dont get panic that you have to read all bloody wars ...
as per my point o view i would say its a fstival of flavour indian food truly has been focusses a varying taste all over the subcontinent. the region which wass india in its thousand years of history was sreched from afghan to myanmar and from himalayas to indian ocean has flavours as it came in and incorporated with it. the nation with its vivd culture and varying rituals all over its part and influence from invaders outsiders has made its food rich. most of its food has a influence from hinduism which had restrition and openeness to try new and keep the old rituals even in food making it preserved tradition use of fresh and seasonal ingredients, preserved food products, mixing six tastes of life. most of age old food logics and tradition have a backing of scientific explanation for its produce. 'ayurved' one of the greatest ook which suggest healthy eating and healthy life. the book which heels all illness and pains from yur food and also listed what to eat when to eat.
वदनी कवल घेता नाम घ्या श्री हरीचे
सहज हवं होते नानाम घेता फुकाचे
जीवन करी जीवित्वा अन्न है पूर्ण ब्रम्ह
उदाराभारण नोहिजे जनिचे यद्न्य करम
" chant name of god whie having food; its free and even help to digest.
food makes us to live the life; feel this as one of your needful work.
ॐ सहनावाभावतू। सहनौ भुनक्तु सहविर्यम करवावहै॥
तेजस्विना वधिता मस्तु। माँ विद्विशावाहिही॥
ॐ शान्तिही शंतिही शंतिही॥
lets get together sit together eat together think and work together
every ritual of india is comes around with food. food is considered as one of the greatest things in indian culture
diversity and geographial differences in india made its cuise adopt to the situation and they develoeed the taste according to the nature and available ingredient such as north is cold comepare to the rest of nature so their spice mixture includes the spice which keeps body warm the gravies are thicker and food mostly based on wheat as carbohydrate and plenty of milk products. as with southern its hot climate below the cancer line the food is hotter with sour, hot, and watery gravies major starch is rice. food is finished with curd or yogurt to wash down the heat of food and to keep the body cool.
the history of indian food and it changing curvves and palatibility runs down with histry of india since its early civilistion 'indus civilisation'. first it was with indus their food was basically plain included vegetarian diet in their meals. domesticated cows and bulls for milk and their use in the cattle field, basically meat of lamb, goat was among the popular, as per some new findings it is even said that cow and bull eating was common practise in early indus civilisation. while this cilisation was much more adventures new archiologiacal findings says they had trade realtion wiht early civilisation who was in china and south east asia and middle east such as mesapotamia and egypt; even they traveled far east. the first move was happened when aryans came from central asia (as west beleives) they brought new food habbits until now rice and barley was major food but now it started to change with wheat. the new foods intoduced to the land of india until now cow became important domesticated animal which was a bigget source of dairy for the religious customs every day; the cow remains pious until today.
CUISINE OF INDIA
the cuisine of India was synonymous with Garam Masala, mango chutney(sweet concoction of mangoes with cumin, cloves, coriander) chicken Tikka Masala, vindaloo. But it is more than that it is widest as you go by length and breadth of this country the worlds knows the part which migrants of India who choose to showcase them what they felt Indian food. since decades world is eating curry chicken and vindaloo. People still confuse with curry chicken the word curry came from tamil word 'kari' or kadhi which means nothing but sauce or gravey in which the preparation is cooked, small Indian restaurants which are around the globe are majorly have food influenced from Punjabi and Mughlai cuisine as majorly the cooks were either migrated from Punjab part of India or Bangladeshis even before India's independence, Indians from todays pakistan settled in various part of world where British moved, so they took the food with them. Today's Indian restaurant have the same menu they had a decade back, as no one wanted to experiment with the taste buds of the people in fear they will miss their loyal patrons.
but some of the chefs who are new entrepreneurs cum chefs who worked with other chefs came up with the new dimension to the food, they have tried their hands on good option turning the tables to the new taste.
as the india is large country and has different flavours with the festivals all around the year which are the all related with the seasons. so the food around India is vivid with the taste some foods are made same knew different such as rice pudding called 'payasam' southern india which turns to be doodh pak in western india and payesh in north east and 'phirni' in kashmir the northen part of india.

spice trade

spice in indian cuisine takes so much pride no other food takes. The unique flavours taste and efficient use of them made them important not only in indian cuisine but also whom they use to trade with exchange of gold and diamonds yes the Romans and Europeans.
mMjorly europe had two conections with east one for silk which was with china and secondl with india in regarding to spices as germans french and british needed spices. the spice trade with west was going on since ancient times when rome was on its high their food use to ask for malabar pepper sweet smelling cinnamon and bayleaf for pickling. as time passed rome use to sail thair big ships to india with precious marbles such as pearls, gold, diamonds in exchange of spices. even a story goes on people use to give best pepper to their near and dear on festive time to show their love, and capacity to buy the pepper. even before vasco di gama found the searoute the trade was smooth and was depended much on seasons in india.
BACKGROUND

the roman had most important relation with india was with spice trade. the voyage to india is much more dependant on monsoon seasonsand majorly was ued by them. this trade was going wiht southern india until the fall of rome.Seleucid Empire controlled and developed network of trade with india was done very smoothly which was much more influenced with persian way. majorly it was beleived that indian trade with romans via persians but the documents and history shows that it was with at simultanious, Periplus Maris Erythraei an egyptians trader wrote down " Eudaimon Arabia was called fortunate, being once a city, when, because ships neither came from India to Egypt nor did those from Egypt dare to go further but only came as far as this place, it received the cargoes from both, just as Alexandria receives goods brought from outside and from Egypt." and it was well developed with red sea ports.

the greece after fall of rome kept the trade relation with india. as per strabos work he wrote down not less than 120 vessels were sailling to india. even at the time of augustus around more than 100 vessels use to travel all the way to indian ports carrying gold to exchange with india for spices such as pepper and cardmom bay leaf.

ports of both sides
roman
arsinoe: one of the most important port of egypt under ptolemaic dynasty present day it is called as suez.
Myos Hormos and Berenice: this trade port was used by both egyptians and romans to trade spices.

indian ports :
major ports was from guarath and kerala and arikamedu near pondicherry।

muziris: periplus in his trade account wrote down "Muziris and Nelcynda, which are now of leading importance (...) Muziris, of the same kingdom, abounds in ships sent there with cargoes from Arabia, and by the Greeks; it is located on a river, distant from Tyndis by river and sea five hundred stadia, and up the river from the shore twenty stadia" this port city of india was the busiest in all of the Indian ports aorly dealng with pepper and spices.
Barigaza: periplus while his trading realation with india observed following for this port" There are imported into this market-town (Barigaza), wine, Italian preferred, also Laodicean and Arabian; copper, tin, and lead; coral and topaz; thin clothing and inferior sorts of all kinds; bright-colored girdles a cubit wide; storax, sweet clover, flint glass, realgar, antimony, gold and silver coin, on which there is a profit when exchanged for the money of the country; and ointment, but not very costly and not much. And for the King there are brought into those places very costly vessels of silver, singing boys, beautiful maidens for the harem, fine wines, thin clothing of the finest weaves, and the choicest ointments. There are exported from these places spikenard, costus, bdellium, ivory, agate and carnelian, lycium, cotton cloth of all kinds, silk cloth, mallow cloth, yarn, long pepper and such other things as are brought here from the various market-towns. Those bound for this market-town from Egypt make the voyage favorably about the month of July, that is Epiphi" this port was majorly in business with cotton silk and clothing material and use to receive precious stones glass work and art work.

regional cuisine of india

india is a vast country 7th largest in the world. with different cultures and different favours way of life is liberal and splendid as indian tourism department says 'incredible india' the cuisine is also incredible indeed it is greatest, unofficially UKs national food where english people eat more curry than anything else.
the regional cuisine has not been got the platform or stage to share to the rest of the world indian Diaspora had took the food with them but it remained in four walls of the kitchen what got famous was 'chicken tikka masala which became symbol of indian food to the rest of the world but there is alot more and as they say in china if you try one dish a day you have to wait for year to taste it again the same even its fits well with india too as there are people and palates rituals and festivals flora and fauna tradition and taboos set rules and liberal ideas the food has everything from balance to contrast taste. officially this vast nation has 28 states (7 union territories) but the cuisine is multiplied as every state is wide and they have their own taste buds its a subcontinent and cultures florished rapidly as i said in my previous post the food here grew along with festivity and rituals it made a diversity all indian festivals are subjected to the seasons this