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All of these images look so delicious Perzen. Your writing makes me want to go cook (and to plant a curry tree in our yard).

I always smile, kind of sadly, when my parents say "I don't like curry." My wife is Sinhalese, and we've known each other for close to 25 years, yet they refuse to even acknowledge that they don't know what curry is, nor have the tried it, nor are they even the least bit curious about what her family's food traditions are. But we eat a lot of sinhalese food in our house.

Although I must say, Sinhalese food is SPICY.

Lovely essay

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I think many people are missing out on great food and amazing flavours because of their irrational fear of 'spicy foods'.

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Thanks for the recommendations. We use turmeric, garlic and cumin quite often. I need to explore the other ones to our cooking.

I once had breakfast at the house of an Indian family in the USA and I was surprised that it was spicy. I love chili but I wasn't expecting it.

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Hey Perzen! I love where you took this essay and I'm excited to try out your Spinach Tadka Dahl recipe! Thanks for sharing this and I'm excited to read more of your writing. Great work on this article =)

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