{"id":3260,"date":"2006-04-12T09:16:26","date_gmt":"2006-04-12T14:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=3260"},"modified":"2006-04-12T07:47:54","modified_gmt":"2006-04-12T12:47:54","slug":"the_spices_they","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/12\/the_spices_they\/","title":{"rendered":"The spices speak to me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Director <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_Mayeda_Berges\">Paul Mayeda Berges<\/a> was quoted in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnaindia.com\/report.asp?NewsID=1023712&#038;CatID=1\"><em>DNA<\/em><\/a> today about his new movie <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/001219.html\">The Mistress of Spices<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n\n<blockquote>The other key element was to&#8230; give each spice its own Indian instrument so you could know when they were calling out to Tilo. The chillies warn her with a tabla. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/images?q=Chandan+spice\">Chandan<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/images?q=kala%2Bjeera\">kala jeera<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/images?q=tulsi\">tulsi<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/images?q=hing+spice\">hing<\/a> and cinnamon each have their own sounds.<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll bet that what the spices are telling Tilo is, &#8216;Stop exoticizing us, wench!&#8217; Spice-tabla-<em>Chocolat<\/em>-sex: <em>Tilo Does Oakland <img src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/images\/smile.gif\" align=absMiddle border=0><\/em><\/p>\n\n<p><span class=related-posts-heading>Related posts:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/001219.html\">Juicier matters<\/a>, <span class=related-posts><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/003198.html\"><span class=related-posts-title>Coffee cant<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/003194.html\"><span class=related-posts-title>We&#8217;ve got a live one!<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/003113.html\"><span class=related-posts-title>Sakina&#8217;s Restaurant<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/002888.html\"><span class=related-posts-title>Anatomy of a genre<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/002506.html\"><span class=related-posts-title>M-m-me so hungry<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/002023.html\"><span class=related-posts-title>Buzzword bingo<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director Paul Mayeda Berges was quoted in DNA today about his new movie The Mistress of Spices: The other key element was to&#8230; give each spice its own Indian instrument so you could know when they were calling out to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/12\/the_spices_they\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,1,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}