this presentation will give a brief information about the diversity in Indian food style.

1. Our Food Culture

2. Indian food
• Indian food consists of a wide variety of regional and traditional cuisines.
• The range of diversity in climate, culture, ethnic groups, and occupations
these cuisines vary from each other and by use of locally available spices,
herbs, vegetables and fruits.

3. Imprints on the cuisines
• Indian food is heavily influenced by religion, in particular Hindu, and cultural
choices and traditions.
• Middle eastern, Central Asian and Mughals have also influenced .
• Indian cuisine is still evolving as a result of the nations cultural interaction
with other societies.
• Historical incidents such as foreign invasions, trade relations and colonialism
have played role to influence the cuisine.

4. INDIAN FOOD
• The traditional foods of India has been widely appreciated for the fabulous
use of herbs and spices .
• The cooking style varies from region to region and is largely divided in to
south Indian and north Indian cuisines .
• The staple food of India includes wheat, rice and pulses .
• As a result of globalisation a lot of Indians have travelled to various parts of
the world and vice versa , there has been a massive influx of people of
different nationalities in India .

5. SOME TRADITIONAL FOODS OF INDIA
• BENGALI FOOD:- The speciality of this food lies in the perfect blend of
sweet and spice flavours.
• GUJARATHI FOOD:- It is primarily vegetarian and has high nutritional
value and different styles of cooking.
• KASHMIRI FOOD:- It has features of the coking style like central Asia,
Persia and Afghanistan.

6. Bengali thali

7. Continued..
• MUGHULI CUISINE:- It consists of the dishes prepared in the Royal Mughal
Emperors and cooking style practiced during the Mughal Era.
• PUNJABI FOOD:- The enormous variety of vegetarian and non-vegetarian dishes
with the minimal to high range of spices.
• RAJASTHANI FOOD:- The food is well known for spicy curry and delicious
sweets.
• SOUTH INDIAN CUISINE- [KARNATAKA ,
MAHARASTRIAN,ANDHRA,TAMILIAN,KERALIAN]:- The food is known for
its light low calorie appetizing dishes. The traditional food is rice based. It has wide
varieties and yummy lip smacking dishes.

8. South Indian Thali

9. Thank You
By
Gauri Gatade
UGS16RHS1297