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Overhead photo of a South Indian style vegetarian meal served on a large green banana leaf laid over a white cloth. On the leaf are a mound of white steamed rice, a heap of fried potato-style vegetable pieces, a mound of tamarind or lemon rice with spices, a crisp golden medu vada with a hole in the centre, a whole red tomato, and a small dried red chilli. Four bowls and cups surround the leaf: two with thin yellow dal or sambar, one with a brown beverage in a paper cup and one with a chickpea curry, plus two water bottles at the corners. No people are visible in the frame.

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December 20 20152015-12-20Top-down photograph of a meal served on a green banana leaf laid over a white cloth. On the leaf are a mound of white rice, a heap of fried vegetable or meat pieces, a mound of spiced yellow rice, a fried ring-shaped vada, a small red fruit, and dried chilli. Two white paper cups of tea or coffee sit at the top, two small white bowls hold yellow dal and a chickpea-style curry, and two water bottles frame the corners. No people or a person depicted.2015-12-20A photograph of a traditional vegetarian meal served on a large green banana leaf placed on a pale marble floor. On the leaf are a small fried donut-shaped vada, crisp papadam wafers, a pile of cooked rice with curry leaves, a dal-style lentil dish, a folded whole-wheat chapati, shredded carrot and cabbage, sliced fruit including banana and apple, a small heap of chutney and three small white paper cups holding water, buttermilk and a sweet drink. Scattered food crumbs lie on the floor nearby. No people are visible.2011-11-07A top-down photo of a South Indian meal served on a green banana leaf placed on a speckled stone floor. Plain white bowls hold a yellow lentil stew, a thin sambar-like broth, a creamy coconut-style chutney, a cucumber raita, and a small mound of grated coconut. Plain steamed white rice sits in the centre, with fried vadas, a spiced vegetable crumble, and crunchy chickpea-style snacks on the right. A small bottle of water sits at the top right. At the bottom edge, the orange-saffron robe of a seated person is partly visible, but no face is shown.2015-12-20September 21 20162016-09-21A photo of a meal laid out on a large green banana leaf placed on a light floor. On the left are folded flatbreads wrapped in white cloth and a stack of thin pappadums. A deep-fried vada sits at the top centre beside a mound of shredded orange carrot salad. Cooked rice with small lentils is piled in the lower centre, with brown sweet mounds beside it, and chopped pieces in red sauce sit at the upper right. Three white paper cups of liquid stand along the top edge. The leaf is set on a woven mat with blue trim at the bottom edge. No people are visible.2011-11-07May 20 20132013-05-20May 08 20172017-05-08A photograph of a traditional South Indian meal served on two green banana leaves placed on a tiled floor. The leaves hold small heaps of food: fried sweet and savoury snacks, a golden vada, dried fruit and nuts such as cashews and raisins, a fine grey powder, dark brown and black chutneys or jaggery preparations, coarse carrot salad, a spiced rice dish with lentils, grated coconut, a dollop of white rice, a red tomato pickle, crisp pappadams and a yellow vegetable curry. No people are visible, and the page's a person reference is not reflected in the image.2013-09-05 +1 copiesOctober 04 20132013-10-04 +1 copiesA served vegetarian meal on a large green banana leaf placed on a pale tiled floor with an orange cloth edge at the bottom. Four small white paper cups hold chutney, a golden syrup or sauce, a white liquid and a thin drink. Around the leaf are a large puffed poori, fried vada, a folded dosa, sliced banana and pieces of fruit, rice, dal, curried vegetables and chutney, plus a heap of yellow spiced rice and a sweet with nuts. No people are visible and no one is identifiable in the scene.2013-05-20December 11 20112011-12-11