The coastal town of Pondicherry has seen the influence of a host of cultures, and it s not surprising that its cuisine reflects this history. A fragrant potpourri of flavours, primarily from the Tamilian kitchen and resulting from three hundred years of occupation by those universally acknowledged gourmands the French, the food here also reflects eclectic borrowings from Indian, Moghul, French, Portuguese and Malaysian cooking. In The Pondicherry Kitchen, Lourdes ...
