It’s raining pakoras and chai at the Novotel this monsoon season
A few weeks ago, in anticipation of the monsoons, we wrote about how the rains bring out the strangest food cravings. The whole year round you can find mirchi pakoras and kappas available at these little roadside vendors, but we literally walk right through them. Come the monsoons, however, and we line up for a […]
Everything you knew about Goa’s state fruit, the Cashew, is wrong
For the past few days we’ve been looking at different State Symbols of Goa, and some of them have been rather surprising. Who knew that the Striped Grey Mullet was our State Fish, or that we had two State Trees?! Today’s State Symbol is not very surprising. In fact, ask any Goan “what is the […]
The hills of Carambolim loose jumbo-sized cashew nut “botto”
Carambolim Housing Project replaces cashew farm destroying mother “botto” The hills of Carambolim in North Goa were famous for a special type of cashew tree locally known as “botto”. This tree was brought to Goa by the Portuguese. It produced large yellow, juicy cashew apples and cashew nuts. The jumbo-sized cashew nuts weighed 10 gms […]
