Sangam Diaspora

By – Neha Patel

I love chutney (particularly the green kind). It’s my favorite condiment. I like the dark green kind, the light green kind, the minty kind, the garlic kind, the coriander kind, the homemade kind, and even the bottled kind.

Chutney is fabulous. It makes everything taste better. Sometimes you’re sitting at dinner and everything just tastes bland and it makes you question the need for taste buds, but then you take out the chutney put it on everything, and like magic you have a first class dinner. It even makes everything colorfully green. Sometimes it looks like an unnatural green, but that’s okay because ultimately it’s all about the taste. If people say, “Hey you need to eat more green things,” you can whip out that chutney and make their wishes come true. It’s so versatile- you can eat it alone, with samosas, with chicken, with naan, in rice, or whatever else (it’s good in ratai…my other favorite thing). Everyone eats Chutney. South Indians eat it, North Indians too, even West and East Indians. Rachel Ray makes it, Emeril eats it, I bet your neighbors had a taste too.

That girl from Legally Blonde was even named after it. Ultimately, Chutney brings the world together and that is why everyone should go out right now and get some.