For a state which has the largest kitchen in the world at the Jagannath Temple in Puri, Orissau00a0 hasn't found a very strong foothold in Delhi's culinary map. But this humble place dares to change that

Damn those cave dwellers who had it so easy. Sharpen the spear, locate a mammoth, bring it down, light a fire and the job is done. Tracking good food in Delhi concrete jungle is a tad tougher than that. It lurks in most unexpected corners and materializes in a place lest expected.u00a0



Last Saturday, my visit to Odisha, a new food stall in Dilli Haat, opposite INA market, gave me the pleasure of finding one such gastronomic delight right under my nose. The food stalls which have been dishing out appealing food at the place can be counted on one's finger tips. Most of them succumb to their visitors' dread of experimentation and cash on the same fast foods which have been gratifying Delhi's palate for few years now. Odisha, for a change is a brave endeavour to bring food, as the name suggest, from the eastern state of Orissa to a metropolitan city which knows it spaghetti from its spaghettoni but can't dechiper saja pakhala (rice with curd and lemon).