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**PhillipHer** · 05-19-2006, 12:29 PM

Apparently "steaming" as a cooking process was not used in ancient India, it came from China in the v.early AD times.

Idli & Dosai were first made / "invented" in Udupi / the south kanara region by either the konkan or kannada ppl ( read abt this somewhere in Kamat's potpouri or somewhere i think). Wikipedia on Idli: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idli

MTR first introduced Rava Dosa and Rava Idli to the Indian Masses after experimenting with wheat during WWII after rice bcame short of supply. Perhaps MTR shd have patented its invention

Any ideas where / how was Sambar, Payasam, etc, all those foods v take 4 granted, first made?

05-19-2006, 12:29 PM	#22
PhillipHer Join Date Jun 2008 Age 59 Posts 4,481 Senior Member	Apparently "steaming" as a cooking process was not used in ancient India, it came from China in the v.early AD times. Idli & Dosai were first made / "invented" in Udupi / the south kanara region by either the konkan or kannada ppl ( read abt this somewhere in Kamat's potpouri or somewhere i think). Wikipedia on Idli: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idli MTR first introduced Rava Dosa and Rava Idli to the Indian Masses after experimenting with wheat during WWII after rice bcame short of supply. Perhaps MTR shd have patented its invention Any ideas where / how was Sambar, Payasam, etc, all those foods v take 4 granted, first made?
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