> > --- In [email protected], Rick Archer > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The news from Vedic City is that an undetermined > > number of pundits are > > > coming in 10 days. There¹s some hold up because > > their arranging to > > bring > > > their own cooks. > > > -- > > > ********************
I just recalled that Brahmins in India do not eat food prepared by members of other castes if possible, and since the pundits are Brahmins, they'll want Brahmin cooks. But they are going to have a battle with the State Dept over this issue, I'll bet (since the cooks are at least as poor as the pundits and don't qualify for U.S. visas, and the State Dept clerks in India probably are not concerned about caste issues and would just say that MUM should hire people who can read recipes to prepare Indian food -- the pundit kitchen is not a gourmet restaurant that requires superstars of Indian cooking), and this issue of visas for cooks certainly could not have been news all this two years that they have been planning this (non-) event. While I was working as a cook at MIU, Administrator Susan Humphrey used to make an occasional appearance in the kitchen and tell us what high-status folks we were, since cooks were Brahmins in India (since the other three castes can eat food prepared by Brahmins, cooks tend to be Brahmins in India) -- good for a laugh in that dump. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
