Cochin in Kerala; Marari Beach Indian cookery coarse

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My desire to see Southern Indai, having done a fair bit of the north, the Taj mahal etc, was from a TV cookery series set here. So, cookery and food was key. The Marari Beach Hotel holds a cookery demonstration / lesson daily around cocktail time. Just after the Tea Wallah has been on the grass and just before you change for dinner ready to sit at the cocktail bar over looking the beach. We sat here one night watching the lightning over the sea.

Two of the many cookery courses we filmed, kind of. Watching both gives an idea of just how there is no recipe but a confidence that these spices, cooked roughly in this order will produce an incredible meal. Each time, each chef, the food is different because they just take the spices and use them to cook.

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My other film on Cochin, Kerala in Southern India is the more traditional visits blog and film, but there are no rules here and we just loved the India that was the setting of the 2nd series of The Real Marigold Hotel staring Paul Nicolas, Roy Walker, Sylvester McCoy and Miriam Gargoyles. Everything worked on this series, the cast and the place, just thrown together just as these spices seem to be. The two dishes are worth trying to cook. Bhindi Balacera and Kerala Chicken and Cashew. Both start with coconut oil and frying mustard seeds until they pop. However the magic of the local food will not transfer to the UK, because it is fresh vegetables that are full of a wholesome taste that I am not sure I have ever eaten in the UK. Not even when picked and eaten fresh from a farm.

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