Should they not be learning to make chapattis [Indian bread]?
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Instead, there are juicy, turmeric-stained skewers of chicken tikka, and thin, perfectly round chapattis that stick to the walls of a tandoor.
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The menu is almost as sparse as the seating arrangements with just chapattis and breakfast omelettes on offer.
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Drinking, Smoking and even Sex are off limits. The focus is on living a pure life, building strength and honing their wrestling skills.Wrestlers belong to gyms called akharas, where wrestlers live under strict rules. Wrestlers' diets consist of milk, almonds, ghee, eggs and chapattis and each wrestler has a job to do in preparing meals.
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In terms of color, wheat is classified into two classes (i.e. red wheat and white wheat), hard red winter wheat is considered superior and commonly used for bread flour production, while white wheat are usually used for cake, chapattis, and pasta (macaroni), each types of wheat has different properties such as taste, baking quality and milling yields.
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About 25 metres away, the "madeen" group will stand in a line. The "nar" players will ask the "madeen" players: "bil bachya di maa, roti pakki ai ki na?" (translation: bill's mother, are the chapattis made?) (). If the "madeen" group say no, the "nar" group will ask the question again until the "madeen" group say, yes.
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It is boiled and consumed as evening snack. In some parts of India, fresh sweet potato is chipped, dried and then ground into flour; this is then mixed with wheat flour and baked into chapattis (bread). Between 15 and 20 percent of sweet potato harvest is converted by some Indian communities into pickles and snack chips. A part of the tuber harvest is used in India as cattle fodder.
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Several centuries later, the British and the Indians came, and both brought with them foods such as Indian spiced vegetable curries, lentil soups, chapattis and a variety of pickles which have influenced various local dishes. Some common ingredients used in this region include oranges, lemons, limes, chillis, capsicum peppers, maize, tomatoes, and strawberries. In the Horn of Africa, the main traditional dishes in Eritrean cuisine and Ethiopian cuisine are tsebhis (stews) served with injera"Eritrean Food Practices." Webcitation.org.
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Some saw it as the Robin Hood story where the artist took from the "haves" and gave it to the "have-nots". It was legendary; a story line fit for great novels and feature films. One gets a glimpse of that in the short documentary, Labyrinth of a Renaissance made by Nadine Grenz. The charcoal renderings, seen below, Not by bread alone - Kusum making chapattis and Kusum brings her Mother Sakhrabai to visit the Artist are just two of the many masterpieces of this period.
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