Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Gearing up

I am in US for more than six years now. When I moved to here with my husband (we are in Philadelphia and now we have the luxuary of 5-6 kerala grocery stores and a number of other Indian grocery stores. But we are 30 miles away from center city where we have all these grocery stores), we had nobody else to get some advice about what to buy and from where to buy stuff for the kitchen (Philadelphia has the second largest population of Malayalees after Chicago. Most of these people are first immigrants, don't even mind to try new stuffs coming in to the kerala stores and love to cook very blank food. Most of them didn't even try other asian grocery stores to get the stuff they used to get in Kerala) . In the last six years I had to go through a lot of trial and error methods before I settled down with specific brands of curry powders, frozen kerala delicacies. Obviously I had to go through a lot of trials to finally end up with some really good fishes for frying, broiling etc.
A number of my cousins and friends moved to US after me and they all used to seek help from me to get bacic groceries and occassional recipes (all my cousins and their wives are good cooks). This made me to think about starting a blog which may benefit lot of my friends and more brothers and sisters who are ready to move to US( this blog will be specifically dedicated to young new malayalee immigrants in US).
P.S. I am in Philadelphia, if anybody needs to find a particular stuff, I may me able to direct you to a specific store with directions. Others please get help from your friends.