A Black Hole of Happiness

[Flinty_McFlint]

Originally posted by catrin_darcy
I heart Amazon.


Since I'm here --

(a) Barely, congratulations!

(b) 3 (or 7?) on how good Paris looks. She's actually cute.

I challenge you to a round of GHII. But only on easy. And only on cooperative play.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
Find me a Mughali region, you lizard.

This is just another imperialist way of diminishing our grand history, by reducing the cultural inheritance of the glorious empire of the Mughals to "regional cooking", as if it is the food of a few local peasants.

I'll give you an empire:

• The Mughal Empire (Persian: سلطنت مغولی هند), self-designation Gurkānī, گوركانى, lasted from the early sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. At its peak, around 1700, it covered most of the Indian subcontinent and parts of what is now Afghanistan. Its population at that time has been estimated as between 100 and 150 million, over a territory of over 3 million square km.[1] After 1720, it declined rapidly. The decline has been variously described as due to wars of succession, agrarian crises fueling local revolts, and the growth of a religious extremism by the Hindu and Sikh population. The last Emperor, whose rule was restricted to the city of Delhi, was imprisoned and exiled by the British after the War of Independence Rebellion of 1857.
  
  The classic period of the Empire starts with the accession of Akbar in 1556 and ends with the death of Aurangzeb in 1707. During this period, the Empire was marked by a strongly centralized administration connecting the different regions of India. All the significant monuments of the Mughals, their most visible legacy, date to this period.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mughal

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
I'll give you an empire:

• The Mughal Empire (Persian: سلطنت مغولی هند), self-designation Gurkānī, گوركانى, lasted from the early sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. At its peak, around 1700, it covered most of the Indian subcontinent and parts of what is now Afghanistan. Its population at that time has been estimated as between 100 and 150 million, over a territory of over 3 million square km.[1] After 1720, it declined rapidly. The decline has been variously described as due to wars of succession, agrarian crises fueling local revolts, and the growth of a religious extremism by the Hindu and Sikh population. The last Emperor, whose rule was restricted to the city of Delhi, was imprisoned and exiled by the British after the War of Independence Rebellion of 1857.
  
  The classic period of the Empire starts with the accession of Akbar in 1556 and ends with the death of Aurangzeb in 1707. During this period, the Empire was marked by a strongly centralized administration connecting the different regions of India. All the significant monuments of the Mughals, their most visible legacy, date to this period.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mughal

did they invent dosas?

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
I'll give you an empire:

• The Mughal Empire (Persian: سلطنت مغولی هند), self-designation Gurkānī, گوركانى, lasted from the early sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. At its peak, around 1700, it covered most of the Indian subcontinent and parts of what is now Afghanistan. Its population at that time has been estimated as between 100 and 150 million, over a territory of over 3 million square km.[1] After 1720, it declined rapidly. The decline has been variously described as due to wars of succession, agrarian crises fueling local revolts, and the growth of a religious extremism by the Hindu and Sikh population. The last Emperor, whose rule was restricted to the city of Delhi, was imprisoned and exiled by the British after the War of Independence Rebellion of 1857.
  
  The classic period of the Empire starts with the accession of Akbar in 1556 and ends with the death of Aurangzeb in 1707. During this period, the Empire was marked by a strongly centralized administration connecting the different regions of India. All the significant monuments of the Mughals, their most visible legacy, date to this period.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mughal

Thank you, this is my point. It is the cuisine of the Timurid Mughals, not any specific region. The cuisine is the cuisine of Tamer the Great, Babur and Akbar, roving conquerers who were not limited to any one region.

There are little local cuisines throughout the subcontinent, but Mughali cuisine is the cuisine of the great all-conquering Mughals. It takes the best of the local cuisines and the best of Persian and Turkic cooking and combines them.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
did they invent dosas?

No.

[Oliver_Wendell_Ramone]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
I'll give you an empire:

• The Mughal Empire (Persian: سلطنت مغولی هند), self-designation Gurkānī, گوركانى, lasted from the early sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. At its peak, around 1700, it covered most of the Indian subcontinent and parts of what is now Afghanistan. Its population at that time has been estimated as between 100 and 150 million, over a territory of over 3 million square km.[1] After 1720, it declined rapidly. The decline has been variously described as due to wars of succession, agrarian crises fueling local revolts, and the growth of a religious extremism by the Hindu and Sikh population. The last Emperor, whose rule was restricted to the city of Delhi, was imprisoned and exiled by the British after the War of Independence Rebellion of 1857.
  
  The classic period of the Empire starts with the accession of Akbar in 1556 and ends with the death of Aurangzeb in 1707. During this period, the Empire was marked by a strongly centralized administration connecting the different regions of India. All the significant monuments of the Mughals, their most visible legacy, date to this period.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mughal

Ahhh, yes, the accession of Akbar...

[Sparklehorse]

Originally posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone
Ahhh, yes, the accession of Akbar...

But where does Jeff fit in?

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Sparklehorse
But where does Jeff fit in?

Akbar defeated him and wrote him out of the history books. Or tablets. Whatever.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
I'll give you an empire:

• The Mughal Empire (Persian: سلطنت مغولی هند), self-designation Gurkānī, گوركانى, lasted from the early sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. At its peak, around 1700, it covered most of the Indian subcontinent and parts of what is now Afghanistan. Its population at that time has been estimated as between 100 and 150 million, over a territory of over 3 million square km.[1] After 1720, it declined rapidly. The decline has been variously described as due to wars of succession, agrarian crises fueling local revolts, and the growth of a religious extremism by the Hindu and Sikh population. The last Emperor, whose rule was restricted to the city of Delhi, was imprisoned and exiled by the British after the War of Independence Rebellion of 1857.
  
  The classic period of the Empire starts with the accession of Akbar in 1556 and ends with the death of Aurangzeb in 1707. During this period, the Empire was marked by a strongly centralized administration connecting the different regions of India. All the significant monuments of the Mughals, their most visible legacy, date to this period.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mughal

I never knew that the winking smiley face emoticon was a Persian character. That explains a lot.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Sparklehorse
But where does Jeff fit in?

Where the elite meet to eat reheated tasty Mughal treats?

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
did they invent dosas?

I had a dosa this weekend at the Dosa Hut. It was served to me by a very supercilious waiter. Yum.my.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Sparklehorse
But where does Jeff fit in?

Slot C.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
I never knew that the winking smiley face emoticon was a Persian character. That explains a lot.

in the pix you posted yesterday there were like 1000 people. 3 appeared middle eastern- 4 were black- no asians. Do you have ethnic restaurants in Minnesota?

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I had a dosa this weekend at the Dosa Hut. It was served to me by a very supercilious waiter. Yum.my.

Maybe your waiter was GGG?

[Sparklehorse]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
in the pix you posted yesterday there were like 1000 people. 3 appeared middle eastern- 4 were black- no asians. Do you have ethnic restaurants in Minnesota?

I just read an article on Salon.com this morning about Cambodian cuisine and one of the letters mentions that there is a good Cambodian restaurant in St. Paul.

Mmm, amok royale.