Mumbai, you mysterious city you, because of you I will never look at spices the same way again! We got to go to a market and watch how spices are made. I mean- really MADE. It was incredible!!! The local women all have their own "secret spice recipes" handed down from their mothers. They collect all of ingredients they need - some sort of red pepper (there are many different varities), which kind of garlic, pepper, onion, tumeric, ginger, and on and on... They bring it all to a shop like the one we went to, where men ROAST IT all (with a bit of oil) in a big open metal pot over a fire. Then they lay out the roasted spices on a burlap bag and put them in a long queue for GRINDING. Only, it is not grinding really, I guess it is mashing, or masticating. Young men take the huge amounts of roasted ingredients, dump them in a hopper, and they fall into very old machines that have large, heavy pieces that pound down over and over a...