Living in wild, remote areas throws up questions of survival and sustainability. The choices one makes are limited to what is available at a particular point in time. More importantly in terms of cuisine, the sensibility of eating the right food at the right time is driven largely by the seasons. In Coorg, the long damp and wet monsoon season meant that the availability of fresh vegetables was limited. This led people to explore and innovate with other food options. Learning from the tribals who lived off the produce of the jungle, foods that grew in the wild were abundantly

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