ssm@ahuta.UUCP (ssm) (03/20/85)
Mazumdar, in his article, accuses net users of displaying their ignorance etc., yet he does precisely that! To assert that Indian cuisine is not comparable to its Chinese counterpart is absurd! Certainly, Indian restaurants have not profilerated across the US like Chinese ones. But Indian food is catching on fast. And the restaurants are better, more elegant than the usual greasy, hole-in-the-wall Chinese restaurant one finds in shopping centers. I was pleasantly surprised to find THREE top class Indian restaurants in, of all places, Marbella, Southern Spain ( a well-known watering hole of celebrities and other `beautiful' people). Indian cuisine, especially the better known Northern Indian variety, is ackowledged to be one of the great cuisines of the world and is winning converts at an astonishing rate. Even more absurd is the hypothesis that it is Chinese food that lures Americans to China. People don't go 12,000 miles to a country to sample the food, especially when that country's food is abundantly represented a few blocks away. They obviously go for other reasons. If the place has exciting food to offer the tourist it simply is a bonus. Sanjay Modak AT&T Information Systems Lincroft, NJ P.S. Kindly desist from sending mail to me on this topic as it serves no purpose to discuss it further. Thanks.