K.N. Rao in America

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Therese wrote:

 

I have met K.N. Rao at the California conference in the early 90s. He would

hold court in the evening after class sessions, and at the time he was

living mostly on coffee and chocolate!

 

Sari:

 

He's written somewhere, I think I found it in the old archives of a jyotish

list, that he hated American food. I didn't get the food there he would have

liked proper and so he was starving on his visits. Okay, that was his own

comment.

 

Best, Sari

[Guest guest]

At 05:48 PM 3/21/08 +0200, Sari wrote:

>

>[Rao] has written somewhere, I think I found it in the old archives of a

jyotish

>list, that he hated American food. I didn't get the food there he would have

>liked proper and so he was starving on his visits. Okay, that was his own

>comment.

 

But the San Francisco Bay Area has hundreds of ethnic restaurants, many of

them Indian. Many natives themselves don't eat American food. They prefer

the ethnic varieties. I always preferred ethnic foods when living there.

What is American food?? At least in the big cities it's now a grand mixture

of all cultures except for hamburgers and french fries and the fast food

places. Small towns, however--still plain boring American menus.

 

Therese