Southwestern Indian State of Kerala

: I fly into the southwestern Indian state of Kerala, where my friend Bajish meets me at his parents’ house on the outskirts of the city of Thrissur, according to Toronto Star. He eyes me as I struggle to scoop up his mother cooking with my inept right hand. India is a paradise for lovers of fruits, flavours and spice. Over the course of a week, she prepares breadfruit, chicken and fish curries, carrot and chickpea chilies and tomato dal, all steeped in rich coconut cream and tongue-flaying dosages of chili, accompanied by fried fish, eggplant, white rice, crumbly rolls of coconut and rice flour, crispy lentil flatbread, fragrant chapati, creamy cassava, sour yogurt and buttermilk. You have to pick up the food like this, he says. Bajish expression is part amusement, part disgust. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.