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In this year-end special, we bring you the taste—and with it, the feel and the smell—of a few such very special towns. Don't look for the big names here, like Hyderabad, Udupi orLucknow. We've side-stepped them to focus on places little known outside their regions, and little-savoured even within them. Who, beyond Bengal, knows about Burdwan'sethereal Sitabhog? And you can live forever in Chennai without going to Karaikudi, the home of the real Chicken Chettinad, vastly different from its vulgar impostor. And, of course, the food trail is never just about food. It is also, as you'll see, a window into the inner lives of these towns—culture, politics, society, changes, continuities, contradictions, incongruities. BonAppetit!
