556469 Thu Sep 11 05:10:37 -0700 2008 5 31 Home Cooking 0 4025870 i had a couple of three anglo indian friends growing up in bombay and i must have eaten their own unique cuisine just a handful of times. intriguingly there were a few dishes offered in irani restaurants or sometimes the cook in a parsi household would produce a dish or two. but as the anglo indian community vanishes in india, we needn't lose their cuisine (like we seem to have done with the cochin indian jews). the blog below is a labour of love and i hope you get a chance to try a few of the dishes. enjoy. http://blog.pepperwater.com/bridgetsrecipes/about/ Thu Sep 11 05:10:37 -0700 2008 11086 howler 1 4026103 I had posted a reply earlier but it seems to have got eaten. Thanks for that informative link, howler. Is there no enterprising blogger of Cochin Jewish background who's showcasing that cuisine? Thu Sep 11 07:09:11 -0700 2008 4025870 116187 Rasam 1 4026657 What a delight! Thanks for posting that. Thu Sep 11 10:14:51 -0700 2008 4025870 221993 Channa 1 4026690 wow, that's interesting. there is still pockets of thriving Anglo-Indian communities in India and Pakistan as well...in Pakistan they are still Anglo-Indians, not Anglo-Pakistanis, go figure. My observation is that a few generations of marrying amongst each other as well as becoming enveloped as another subcontinental community, they don't have their "fair looks" this generation and are very desified and eat Indian foods and all. Their cuisine has definately influenced the rest of subcontinental cooking, too. I made "pattis" with queema the other day and thought about how all the pattis and cutlets and stuff like that are Anglo-Indian. Anyway, I am off to surf that blog link and the links in that blogger's side bar. thanks again for the link. Thu Sep 11 10:23:22 -0700 2008 4025870 118120 luckyfatima 2 4026744 patties and cutlets are undoubtedly angrezi in origin, but the champions are the parsis. if you ever had a minced meat parsi pattis with that gloriously comforting potato cover and the egg +bread crumb coat or the flaky chicken pattis or the sense altering vegetarian pattis, you'll know why i'm surfing the net for tickets to bombay. Thu Sep 11 10:41:02 -0700 2008 4026690 11086 howler 1 4033102 What characterizes Cochin cuisine? There doesn't seem to be much literature on the culture, let alone specifics like food. What little I know fascinates me. Sat Sep 13 19:41:57 -0700 2008 4025870 152043 TampaAurora