Nik Sharma – who lives in the States and grew up in Mumbai – tells me he’s never seen one dish as more important than another, he just eats a mixture of dishes at one meal, often vegetables.
I’m from a culture where roast meat, meaty braises and steaks have been important. Vegetables were side dishes. We eat more vegetables than we used to, but I still have trouble getting my family to accept a vegetable dish as central.
I can make vegetable gratins, pastas and tarts, but these can still seem like the ‘vegetarian option’. Even though they’ve stopped actually saying, ‘Where’s the meat?’ I sense their feeling that something is missing.Maybe our eating habits really are changing and we’ll get used to a few vegetable dishes constituting dinner..
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