Word: cardamoms
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...first taste of India's cuisine was a revelation, experienced in my early 20s when some Indian friends staved off homesickness by cooking lamb curry, yellow daal (lentils), puffs of poori (deep-fried bread) and other dishes. The evocative spices, the heady scent of cardamom and curry, the pungent bite of pickles comforted them. To me, it was all new, all exciting...
...marinade and blushed bright red from the tandoor, was nonetheless moist inside. Trout, Vinod Kapoor said, baked in the coolest of the three tandoor ovens, tasted quite wonderful, as thought it had been smoked. The spicing on this Kashmiri dish was subtle, just a hint of curry, possibly of cardamom, and the slightly crisped flesh tender...
Dessert, however, is worth waiting for, as long as it's the Badami Kheer ($2.25), a chilled rice pudding flavored with cardamom, almonds and raisins. Simply said, it was perfect. Its price will not sap the wallet, and the taste will linger in the memory...
...they live in deathly fear of the Khmer Rouge, who have not abandoned their politics of terror. Though it is not known for sure whether Pol Pot survived his ouster by the Vietnamese last January, he is widely believed to command his guerrilla forces from hideouts in the Cardamom Mountains of southwest Cambodia. Other known areas of Khmer Rouge strength are in the heavily forested northeast and the mountainous west...
Although the Vietnamese troops in Cambodia outnumber the Khmer Rouge 7 to 1, it is by no means certain that Hanoi can defeat the Khmer Rouge. The Cardamom Mountains are densely forested and remote. The Vietnamese supply lines are long and vulnerable to harassment, and the Khmer Rouge know the country. Continuing Vietnamese efforts to root out the guerrillas may merely add to the chaos in Cambodia...