Govardhan

What to eat in Govardhan

Govardhan's own offering: the hill Krishna lifted is fed 56 dishes at Annakut, and the same idea scales down to any temple thali here.

Butter and sugar crystals, what the child Krishna stole in these very villages. Handed out in pinches, not sold.

The Braj sweet: dense reduced milk, pressed into a disc and stamped. Bought by the boxful on the way out of the parikrama.

What the parikrama actually runs on: sour gram-flour curry over rice, ladled out at the roadside stalls that feed walkers for free.

Milk reduced for hours over low heat until it thickens and the skin is folded back in, layer after layer. Sweet, but mostly it tastes of patience.

Cold milk ground with almonds, fennel and pepper: the Braj answer to the heat, and the drink of Holi in Krishna's own country.

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