Food
Rice is the staple food and wheat, maize, millet are the substantial cereals, which can be prepared for consumption in various ways. Large quantities of cooked rice, meat, and vegetables are consumed with various kinds of chutney, ginger, garlic, chilies, and spices. Two heavy meals of almost identical preparation a day is consumed and all else are comestibles of little significance. Since jhum cannot supply all the vegetables and meat, they constantly go to the forest seeking for vegetables, and hunting for deers, fowls, trap small games like squirrels, birds, etc. In preparation, nothing is discarded; teeth, brain, claws, innards are all included. The Hmars eat lots of hot chilli (pepper) but with very little spice. Some of the famous dishes are CHARTANG (mixture of meat, vegetable and hot pepper, HMEPAWK (stew), and CHANGALHME (vegetable or meat cooked with hot pepper and soda from the ashes)(Pudaite, 1963).
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