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| | village voice > nyclife > Counter Culture by Robert Sietsema (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | Eschewing the fistfuls of powdered spices used in northern cooking, Keralite fare recalls the cooking of ancient Vedic times, relying on curry leaf, fl mustard seed, tamarind, and tender young ginger root. |
 | | The small spotless dining room is calculated to put you in a cheery mood with its red-checked tablecloths, colorful place mats, and picture window, which looks onto a small shop in the front that peddles coconut oil, cinnamon-laced caramels, spice combinations called masalas, and other foodstuffs and cosmetics. |
 | | There are chapatis, pooris, papadams, and, best of all, multiple versions of the fluffy rice bread called appam, made with a batter heavily laced with coconut milk. |
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