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FEELINGS/SENSES OF INDIA Namaste!! With this greeting I welcome you to discover the SENSES OF the OLD INDUSTAN. If you have the chance of visiting this subcontinent you will experience the best sensations, and I'd like to help you discover this country and remember it forever. India is an impressive country. It will never leave you with indifference. It's a country with strong contrast, both geographically and ethnically, socially and culturally. It's a very different reality to ours with very special surroundings. The exposition will be developed following all and each one of our senses. TASTE If you don’t like SPICES, FORGET about VISITING this country, as SPICES are so important to Indian cooking - especially preparing curry. The world "CURRY" is an English derivative of "KARI", meaning SOICE SAUCE, but curry does not, in India, come as a powder. It is the subtle and DELICATE BLENDING OF SPICES such as turmeric, cardamom, ginger, coriander, nutmeg and poppy seed. Like an artist’s palette of oil paints, the Indian cook has some TWENTY-FIVE SPICES (freshly ground as required) with which to MIX the recognized combinations or "MASALAS". Many of these spices are also noted for their MEDICINAL PROPERTIES. They, l