Escape the Ordinary....

As promised I'm going to start my Wikipedia Trails with Kaapi, or Indian filter coffee. Finding different coffees from around the world is something that I enjoy. Kaapi I read the articles on Wikipedia:  found here . The one thing I learned about Kaapi is the preparation. It is prepared in two metal cylinders. One has holes in the bottom so that when the coffee is pressed, it can pass through this porting. The other holds the coffee and has a metal disk in it to tamp down the ground beans. I envisioned it to be like a small version of a french press. It is then poured with a lot of milk and sugar. They also have a third metal bowl type vessel that they pour it back and forth in to cool the drink down as well as mix it all together. This is what Kaapi looks like: Source:  Wikipedia Jaggery The next article I read was on Jaggery. It's a type of sweetner they use to sweeten the coffee.  It looks really rather gross in it's raw form. Source:  Wik...

I'm not going to lie, this is probably going to be one of my favorite assignments throughout the semester. I do this on my own when I'm curious about a subject. I google it and then two hours later, I know the most random facts! So when I saw this as an option, I knew it would be something enjoyable.  This week we brainstormed about different storybook ideas. The one that caught my attention the most, was a storybook I saw about food. So that's where I started this week. One of my favorite Indian dishes is Chicken Biryani. It is a savory, and sometimes spicy, rice and meat dish. It is filled with a ton of traditional Indian spices. This is the link on Wikipedia that I used to learn more about the dish:  Biryani . What I didn't know is that there are soooooo many versions of the dish. I knew there were a couple of different varieties depending on the ingredients used, but I did not know that it was then divided into region: both inside and outside India! It lists 24 d...