INDIAN FACT OF THE MONTH (November 2006): INDIAN DESSERTS & THE SWEET TOOTH

Indian cuisine is known throughout the entire globe as a sweet cuisine and this tag doesn’t come along without some compelling reasons. Almost half of  Indian dishes are either sweets or desserts? Actually, Indian sweets have not only made Indian food famous throughout history, but they have been acquired and accommodated to European and North American dishes, finding great success in fancy “Baltic” restaurants through-out England, France, the United States or Spain.

The Rasgulla, one of the most popular relished sweetmeats in India, originating from the east of the country, has an interesting modern history. This dish produced by the boiling of small pops of casein in sugar syrup has become emblematic of the quintessentially effeminate stuff of ridicule of the Bengali people. This sweet dessert can be found in almost all eastern Indian households, while Indian grocers around the world sell it heavily!