Indian cuisine — , Punjab / north
Decide the order of Indian cuisine before the pan is hot. “Punjab / north” in names that order, and 1 is heat, salt, or time. Do not treat a restaurant photo’s gloss as a quantity. A history of Indian cuisine that starts at the airport restaurant will miss the ferments, markets and labour that actually built the table.
Indian cuisine sits at spice 95 in this atlas. Biryani and Masala dosa show the range better than a single heat number. Biryani plus one regional plate — not only the export icon. Spices bloomed in hot fat and poured over a dish. Chili is late (16th century) and now structural in many kitchens. Heat here outruns Thailand only because black pepper, mustard seed and chili stack; many dishes stay fragrant rather than red.
The home pantry around Tadka and the labour behind Masala dosa rarely fit a takeaway box. Are restaurant versions "authentic"? Restaurant Indian cuisine is one register. Home pots and market stalls are others. Authenticity is a marketing word; technique is not. भारतीय व्यंजन is the local name used in this atlas beside Indian cuisine.
Indian cuisine is a family of regional systems that share tadka (spices bloomed in fat), dal, yogurt and pickle. A Tamil breakfast of idli-sambar and a Punjabi tandoor dinner are not versions of one gravy. Street India — chaat, vada pav, kolkata rolls, Hyderabad biryani stalls — is a full cuisine. The overseas "curry house" is a real British-Indian dialect, not a replica of Lucknow or Madurai.
1 belongs to “Punjab / north” in . Indian cuisine is not a sentence about taste until that measure is there.1
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