Chewing on sugar cane, digging into delicious sweet pongal, and catching a Test at Chepauk were all part of January festivities in the Madras of yore. The Pongal Test was very much part of the ...

The festival’s most significant practice is the preparation of the traditional “pongal” dish. It utilises freshly harvested rice and is prepared by boiling it in milk and raw cane sugar (jaggery).

Their special Pongal Thali, available from January 14 ... The crunch of the roasted seeds when combined with the natural sweet cane sugar is so delicious that it needs no other ingredient to ...

Their special Pongal Thali, available from January 14 ... The crunch of the roasted seeds when combined with the natural sweet cane sugar is so delicious that it needs no other ingredient to ...

On the other hand, Sakkarai or Chakkarai pongal is prepared with rice, lentils, ghee, and jaggery. It is the sweet offering made to the Sun God. Freshly harvested rice is slowly boiled in cow’s milk ...

Hugh Andre walked a small portion of his 10,000 acres of sugar cane in Iberia Parish. He crouched down and began digging away at the dirt and pulling up the remnants of older canes. "Do I think ...

Given the festival demand, there was a spurt in their prices in retail markets in the city, which witnessed milling crowds, on the eve of Pongal on ... to individual cane at a few places, said ...

Before the sugar cane can be crushed in the mill, the canes have to be deprived of their leaves, and this is now done by hand. The invention we are about to describe is intended to supersede the ...

FROME, Westmoreland — Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining Floyd Green is urging sugar cane growers to get back into farming. According to Green, investments by Pan-Caribbean Sugar ...

So far, the Thai government’s efforts to improve its air quality have failed to address the systemic causes of the problem.