Comments on: Ginger Lemon Soopa

By: aditi

aditi — Fri, 08 May 2009 01:20:53 +0000

Hi ,
I liked your strawberry soopa and strawberry salsa the most. do you have any chitka for a broken dosa pan. My dosas are getting sticked to the pan. The problem is with the pan (I have overheated it one time).

By: Preethi

Preethi — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 04:15:34 +0000

Super recipe! Will surely try it…

By: Pavithra

Pavithra — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:57:10 +0000

Indira: this recipe totally reminds me of Lemon rasam. We substitute red chilli powder with green chilli. And this is one of my favourite comfort foods!!!
On the same note let me add this for those interested: It is believed that Sanskrit has the same origin as that of the classical languages such as Greek, Latin, and possibly Persian. No wonder we are discovering so many similarities!! Just as how majority of English words have its roots either in Greek or Latin.

By: Sowjanya

Sowjanya — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 01:34:22 +0000

Thanks Indira for the comforting soopa. I’m gonna try this sometime this week and let you know how it turned up. I’m sure its gonna taste delicious.

By: Vandya

Vandya — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 04:10:51 +0000

Indira, without buying the book,we all are getting to know the recipes. Thanks alot.

By: radha

radha — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 19:58:24 +0000

‘Soopa’ is a nice word from sanskrit. Sanskrit is the mother of all languages. i find it so similar to telugu. or rather telugu is so close to sanskrit, although all the other languages spruced from it.
Great recipe reviving the old age tradition of drinking soup. the other day i was telling hubby that this recipe is pappu charu for us and soup for others.This is really our indian signature dish for soup which is neither vegetable nor meat based!it is lentil based.

By: Indira

Indira — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 14:18:40 +0000

Thanks friends for you nice comments. Like I mentioned this is a familiar soopa. For people who don’t value rasam/pappu chaaru significance, this is a nice way to reintroduce the age-old recipe in a new package.

Hello Shwetha, How was it? Hope you had a comforting soopa.

P&J and ms, it’s really interesting to know about soopa word relations. I didn’t know about Soopa’s Tamil, Greek and Spanish connections. Very enlightening. Thanks for sharing.

By: ms

ms — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 13:32:08 +0000

Hi Indira,
Soopa is really interesting, All the mexican cook books ive read also refer to soup as sopa. Their use of the word sopa is flexible referring dry rice dishes and soupy thin broths. Re Kavitha Shivan’s comment on Pritya, I remember an audio book on the history of english language where they talked at length about the deep relationship between european languages and Sanskrit. Food history is so fascinating !
ms

By: Pritya

Pritya — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 06:52:14 +0000

Dear Indira,
The word ’soopa’ seems to have captured the interest of many a readers. This is an email we received from Kavitha Shivan who is the designer of our books. She wrote, “Hi P&J, I don’t know Sanskrit, but have an interest in etymology. Its so fascinating to see how you’ve dug out ’soopa’ from Sanskrit. Recently I was doing some research for restaurant names for a Greek friend, and found so many Greek culinary words related to Sanskrit, Hindi and even Tamil. Sanskrit is all over the place, and takes an eye to find it and languages are easier to learn if we know the root words. There is a word in Tamil called ’sappi’ or ’soopi’, meaning to sip and drink, (ex. when a baby sucks its thumb, we say ‘viral soopi’ ). Soopa seems like ‘that which is sipped’ connoting the action of sipping soup from a bowl or water from a glass. Now that you’ve dug the word out, I am able to extend it to Tamil and relate to it! Thought you might be interested. Thank you.”

By: Uma

Uma — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 21:30:45 +0000

Looks so comforting and delicious.