Cuisine is a term used for specific cooking practice prepared with region specific or local ingredients with a fragrance of culture and tradition of the region.Some where religion and custom laws of food often influences the cuisines.
In prospect of Chennai, Cuisines has a wide and enriched variety.chennai is known for its delicious and mouth watering South Indian food culture with the art of making the dishes.The manner of serving the food is also very special and unique because the South Indian culture is strongly believed that "serving food to others is serving to the humanity" . Tneir hospitality is world famous and represents India the best among the nations.The city has both vegetarian and non vegetarian type of dishes.
Rice is extensively used grain in South India. Legums,beans,lenthils are also used very commonly in the food recepies.The commonly south Indian dishes and meals like, Idly, Dosa, appam, uthappam, Idiyappam, Sambar, Rasam, Vatha Kuzhambu, Payasam, appalam etc which are considered generally as south indian food are essentially Tamil food and they are all originated from Tamil cuisine.Chennai is also famous for its lovely filter coffee.
The traditional way of eating a meal involves being seated on the floor only, having the food served on a banana leaf, and using clean fingers of the right hand to transfer the food to the mouth. After the meal, the fingers are washed, and the banana leaf becomes food for cows.
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