On Nov 7, 2007 12:14 AM, Thaths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 6, 2007 9:55 AM, Charles Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1) Food > > 2) More food > > 3) Good food > > Lots of this to be had. Try both the local Keralan cuisine and also > the fusion cuisine. There are some good cookbooks on Malayalee cuisine > available as well. > > > 4) History > > Fort Kochi is good. Also, many good books available. > > > 5) Culture > > Kathakali / Mohini attam are great to watch. If you are interested, > maybe visit an Ayurveda hospital (not one of those massage places). >
There was this food/history/culture experience all rolled into one a few months ago 5km from Cochin airport, a village called Pudiyadom. Dr Raghavan and family live there at the "South Palace" and their house/palace is open to patients and I was their because of muscle atrophy due to an RSI shoulder! It was mango season and they made mango and curds curry which when you ate, you have to squeeze the hot fruit in the curry with your fingers and then mix it with the curry-rice. And many other dishes were my firsts. They have a dream of a pool that 100 some years old - a pool that became for they dug latrite to build the palace As luck happened, the night of my first day there, the village had a festival where 9 elephants were involved in a cheer leading routine of some fantastic cheer leading pom pom guys on top of the elephants and all around there was drumming and bow trumpets and other music that went on for hours This was magic enough that I decided to stay for a few weeks when the doc said i have to stay.. although my intention was to meet him and see what he suggests for my shoulder problem a short walk is in the beautiful river.. and guess what his foundation is called! IFART international foundation for ayurvedic research and training beat that :)
