Your Heart Is Worth Your Grain Of Salt
In India, salt is not only an important ingredient on the kitchen shelf, it is also ingrained in our cultural psyche. There are many phrases in the vernacular Hindustani language which reflect its importance “you cannot be disloyal to someone whose salt you have eaten”; if you are loyal to a person you are called namak halaal (loyal), else one is namak haraam (disloyal)…
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Your Heart Is Worth Your Grain Of Salt
June 20, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: hindustani, kitchen, language-which, namak-halaal, nutrition / diet, oncalldietitian.com, our-cultural, reflect-its, the-kitchen, vernacular
