Nicole and I have arrived at the Vijiana cultural center in the small town of aranmula. We are here for a week to take cooking classes and malyalam. THe center offers all sorts of classes from kathakali, dance, kalari, hindi, table, painting, wood carving, yoga etc.. The people are tremendously friendly. Nisha, our cooking teacher, is an absolutely adorable woman with mad cooking skills and quite good english. (as my malyalam stilll has a little ways to go....) The recipes are fun but i think my favourite is the wrapping (take home package) of banana leaves. SOme of the ingredients are going to be a little bit tough to find. Fresh coconut is in everything and all of the kitchens are equipped with coconut carvers... Not to mention the crazy machete looking tool used to break
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