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India is enormous. It is a continent with totally different climates. There are lots of different food variants there.

I find some of its food delicious, some I can't eat because it has so many spices.

Lots of Western flavors come from India, like custard from cinnamon,hamburger pepper in the meat or ketchup(an indian dish imitation), or Spanish paella from saffron.

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Yes this article and the recipes sound mostly north Indian centric. For instance there is no such thing as Indian curry. It is a western word for some mixture of spices and ingredients. If you say "I like Indian food, I love curry" they will understand you nothing about Indian food. Curry is what a restaurant will call something when someone asks what the dish is.

Another example is that in western India they hardly use garam masala. It is much more north Indian centric. The main ingredient in garam masala, cloves, can be very overwhelming.

Indian curry and its usage is annoying. That's the farthest you can ever go from Indian food.

Actually the article uses Coconut Chutney to illustrate which is very much a south Indian staple accompaniment.

The word "chutney" is not even in the article. It just talks about putting onions with coconuts and curry leaves. And in fact you will find that the vast majority of coconut chutney does NOT have onions.

Curry leaves are interesting, they are not used in Bengal. In spite of Bengal being tropical like parts of South India.

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