Pongal (dish)

Pongal is a popular rice dish in Tamil Nadu, and the Tamil cuisine of Sri Lanka. In Tamil, the root pong or pongu means to " boil over" or "spill over".

There are two varieties of pongal, Sakarai Pongal which is a sweet, and Ven Pongal, made from clarified butter. The unqualified word pongal usually refers to spicy pongal in Tamil Nadu, and is a common breakfast food in Tamil Nadu. The rice boiled with milk and jaggery during the Pongal festival is also called pongal - this is sweet pongal made specially in earthenware pots with a wood fire.

Types of pongal

Sakarai pongal

Sakarai pongal (lit. jaggery pongal) is generally prepared in temples as a prasadam, (an offering made to a deity, as a thanksgiving). This type of pongal is prevalent in pongal festivals such as Thai Pongal) in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, India.

Ingredients can include rice, coconut and mung bean. Sakarai pongal is traditionally sweetened with jaggery, which gives the pongal a brown colour, though it can be sweetened with white sugar instead.

Dish!

Dish! is a Canadian English language talk show. Dish! premiered on February 9, 2009 at 10:30 p.m. EST on the Canadian specialty channel, OUTtv.

Premise

Dish! is described as a multi-platform talk series featured in print, on the Internet and television. Dish! is a three-part talk series where prominent members of the LGBT community are interviewed by one of their peers.

Season 1

Episode 1

The first episode features actor and comedian Scott Thompson being interviewed by fellow comedian Elvira Kurt. The episode premiered on OUTtv, Xtra.ca and a portion of the transcript interview was featured in the Pink Triangle Press owned magazines Xtra!, Xtra! West and Capital Xtra!.

Episode 2

The second episode features novelist Colm Toibin interviewed by Emma Donoghue. The episode was shown on OUTtv, Xtra.ca and portions of the transcript interview were featured in Xtra!, Xtra! West and Capital Xtra!.

Episode 3

The third episode features filmmaker Terence Davies interviewed by Noah Cowan. The interview was featured exclusively on Xtra.ca.

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Dana Kletter

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Dana Kletter (born October 21, 1959) is an American musician and writer.

Biography

Kletter and her twin sister Karen were born in Baltimore, Maryland and raised in New York. Dana began playing piano at age four. She attended American University in Washington, D.C. where she studied piano with Alan Mandel. She left music school and submerged herself in the DC Hardcore punk rock scene at its apex, in the early 1980s. There she met the friends who would become part of her professional musical life.

blackgirls

Dana moved to Raleigh, North Carolina in 1985 and formed blackgirls, described by the Chicago Reader as a "dark art-folk trio," with Eugenia Lee Johnson and Hollis Brown.

The band performed for several years and released a single as part of the Evil I Do Not To Nod I Live boxset with four other North Carolina bands (including the early bands of Superchunk guitarist and Merge Records mastermind Mac McCaughan), and a five song EP, Speechless. In his Spin magazine review of Speechless, Tony Fletcher noted, "…hints of absolute greatness within, most noticeably on "Queen Anne," a ballad in which Dana Kletter's vocals lean towards the sultry peaks of Nico and Marianne Faithfull…"
The band came to the attention of American auteur producer Joe Boyd (Nick Drake, Sandy Denny, Fairport Convention, Pink Floyd, REM). Boyd signed blackgirls to his European-based Hannibal Records label and Mammoth Records of Chapel Hill, North Carolina became their American label.

Thai Pongal

Thai Pongal (Tamil: தைப்பொங்கல்) is a Tamil harvest festival. Thai Pongal is a four day festival which according to the Gregorian calendar is normally celebrated from January 13 to January 16, but sometimes it is celebrated from January 14 to January 17. This corresponds to the last day of the Tamil month Maargazhi to the third day of the Tamil month Thai.

Thai Pongal is one of the most important festivals celebrated by Tamil people in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, the Indian Union Territory of Puducherry,Sri Lanka, as well as Tamils worldwide, including those in Malaysia,Mauritius, South Africa,USA, Singapore,Canada and UK. Thai Pongal corresponds to Makara Sankranthi, the winter harvest festival celebrated throughout India.

The day marks the start of the sun’s six-month-long journey northwards (the Uttarayanam). This also corresponds to the Indic solstice when the sun purportedly enters the 10th house of the Indian zodiac Makara or Capricorn. Thai Pongal is mainly celebrated to convey appreciation to the Sun God for providing the energy for agriculture. Part of the celebration is the boiling of the first rice of the season consecrated to the Sun - the Surya Maangalyam.