Rajasthan with Manu Mehta & Late Rani Meena Ranawat Bambulia Kotah

Appears in
top 1000Prashad: Cooking with Indian Masters
Prashad

By J. Inder Singh Kalra

Published 1990

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The desert has challenged man since antiquity and has, in fact, spawned the earliest civilizations. The centuries old battle with nature is what makes the denizens of the desert a breed apart—the only people on earth with joie de vivre.

No one reflects this zest for life better than the Rajasthanis. Their home is the Thar or the Great Indian Desert. A hundred holidays or even a thousand celebrations elsewhere cannot match the year—round excitement of the festivals and fairs of Rajasthan, where myth and history intermingle in explosion after explosion of merriment. With celebration constantly in the air, could exotic cuisine be far behind? No!