Each country has its own kind of food and tastes to offer. tourists seem to try the characteristic dishes each country has to offer. India has a variety of dishes and most of them are prepared using oil and fat. Spices and herbs like corriander, ginger, garlic, cinamon, cardamoms, cloves, aniseed and asafoetida are used in different combinations and flavours. Salt and pepper or chillies are added to curries while they are being cooked and are not sprinkled at the time of serving.

        Majority of people in India are vegetarians, A large number of dishes are made from milk and milk products as cheese, ghee and curds. Cereals like rice, wheat and maize form part of the staple food. Rice is consumed in large quantities by South Indians while wheat forms an important part of the diet with the North Indians. Dal and curry are common to both. However, there is a large variety in both the preparations.

        Eating habits as well as styles differ from place to place.

Beverages
One can experience types in different places.

Desserts
India is a country of sweets, and Indians, if they can afford, would like to have sweets with almost every meal. Each region has its own specialties.

Regional
There is a whole range of curry dishes from different parts of India each having its own distinct flavour as for the matter of convenience, we can broadly divide Indian food into four different regions -- North, West, South and East.

Spices
The most commonly used spices and herbs in Indian cooking are asafoetida (hing), cardamom (elaichi), clove (laung), cinnamon (Dalchini), cumin seeds (jeera), corriander (dhania), garlic (lahusan), ginger (adarak), turmeric (haldi), green/red chilly (mirch), aniseed and various peppers.

Breads
India offers a variety of breads like roti, parantha, puri, nan etc there are over 50 varieties of them you name it and you have it and all of them have a different taste.

Paan
As the meal comes to an end there is this item 'Paan' which is a betel leaf wrapped around a variety of ingredients.

Refreshments
The variety of refreshments available is as diverse as the country itself. Each region has its typical and local speciality but some common features are that they are ususally spicy, easily available, and inexpensive. The most popular and commonly known is 'chat', a spicy mix of different ingredients, topped with tangy chutneys (sauce).

Serving
If the preparation of food is important to Indians, its presentation is no less significant.