The dosa, the wet grinder, its inventor and global chocolate

The dosa, the wet grinder, its inventor and global chocolate

Reading Time: 3 minutes  When the waiter in a Canberra Indian eatery asked me if I wanted my dosa “soft or crisp”, it took me a moment to consider. It was a question I had not been asked before. I queried him about it, and he said, “People are fussy about their dosa and complain otherwise”. I have eaten dosa all across south India: soft-thick ones in Mysuru and Bengaluru; thin and crisp in Udupi, Chennai, Rameswaram, and from the 66 different ty…