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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agree with others - find out about food restrictions and otherwise do what you're good at. Agree on avoiding too much garlic. [/quote] What are you talking about? Garlic and ginger are the basis of most South Indian cooking.[/quote] Ginger, yes, but not garlic. Many orthodox South Indians don’t eat onion or garlic. [/quote] What's "orthodox south Indian"? I think you may be thinking of Jains, who are not usually in the south.[/quote] Brahmins. Many Brahmin South Indian families don’t eat garlic or onion. [/quote] DP. Your comment has opened a whole world for me. It is very interesting that the population a specific group is avoiding both garlic and onions. Garlic and onions are notoriously harmful to people who need to avoid high-FODMAP foods. FODMAPs are short chain carbs that poorly absorbed in the intestine and cause great and harmful intestinal distress for people who are susceptible to high-FODMAP food items. I realize Brahmins is the largest caste in India. I wonder if northern Brahmins [u]do[/u] eat garlic and onions? And I wonder about the background of the Brahmin South Indian families, like is it for religious reasons OR is it because of a genetic/natural general need of that populace to avoid high-FODMAP foods? Do they use a lot of tomatoes? That is another high-FODMAP food. Anyway, those are my random musings. Thank you so much for your post above! I am in Google right now trying to figure it out. Our daughter must avoid high-FODMAP foods so she generally avoids Indian foods because our perception has been that most Indian dishes contain garlic and onions. Now we will need to rethink that and perhaps focus on foods from the Brahmin South Indian family recipes and region. [/quote] I don’t think Brahmins are the largest caste in India any more. The ones who don’t eat onions or garlic do it mostly for religious reasons. I never heard of any diet-related reasons for doing this, at least in my large extended family and social circles. This is largely becoming a relic though. The last people I knew who strictly adhered to the no onion-garlic diet were my late grandmothers and women of their generation. Even my grandfathers were not as strict. My parents generation mostly eats everything vegetarian, though my mom has now become more austere in her diet as she has become increasingly religious with age. We are Tamil Brahmins. Many of the Jain families we know follow even more strict dietary rules.[/quote] Thank you so much for replying! It is so interesting to hear about changes in foods and recipes as the cultural landscape changes. We have seen it a lot in the US but I haven't thought about it as much in other countries. You have given me a lot to think about![/quote]
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