Standard South Indian/Mysore fare is quite common as you say. What I find interesting is the phenomenon of "North Indian meals" in our darshinis. I feel they have their own distinct taste different from what one finds in North India.
Also Kannadigas by the way of not having direct British rule or we were split between different political units or rather we were always self sufficient owing to our geography (sea, mountains, farmland , rivers). Or perhaps a lack of ambition have always stayed put in Karnataka. When communities migrate they attain a sharpness to their own identity which non-immigrant communities dont as they take their identity for granted. Now that Kannadigas are migrating due to IT maybe we see a change in the coming decades.
Standard South Indian/Mysore fare is quite common as you say. What I find interesting is the phenomenon of "North Indian meals" in our darshinis. I feel they have their own distinct taste different from what one finds in North India.
Also Kannadigas by the way of not having direct British rule or we were split between different political units or rather we were always self sufficient owing to our geography (sea, mountains, farmland , rivers). Or perhaps a lack of ambition have always stayed put in Karnataka. When communities migrate they attain a sharpness to their own identity which non-immigrant communities dont as they take their identity for granted. Now that Kannadigas are migrating due to IT maybe we see a change in the coming decades.