i love to cook ethnic foods.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Indian cuisine comprises a wide variety of regional and traditional cuisines native to the Indian subcontinent. Given the range of diversity in soil type, climate, culture, ethnic groups, and occupations, these cuisines vary substantially from each other and use locally available spices, herbs, vegetables, and fruits. Indian food is also heavily influenced by religion, in particular Hindu, and cultural choices and traditions. Also, Middle Eastern and Central Asian influences have occurred on North Indian cuisine from the years of Mughal rule. Indian cuisine is still evolving, as a result of the nation's cultural interactions with other societies. Historical incidents such as foreign invasions, trade relations, and colonialism have played a role in introducing certain foods to the country. For instance, potato, a staple of the diet in some regions of India, was brought to India by the Portuguese, who also introduced chillies and breadfruit. Indian cuisine has shaped the history of international relations; the spice trade between India and Europe was the primary catalyst for Europe's Age of Discovery. Spices were bought from India and traded around Europe and Asia. Indian cuisine has influenced other cuisines across the world, especially those from Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, the British Isles, Fiji, and the Caribbean.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I love cooking Indian cuisine, I can make a wide variety of regional and traditional dishes native to the Indian subcontinent."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh wow. I don't know anything about Indian for except that curry is a type of dish and Indian food smells very strong. "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It does smell very strong lol that's mainly due to the complex combinations of spices and herbs like fresh or hot dried chilies"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Ah, are their any other herbs that have the strong smell or is it only the dried chilies? "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Sometimes it's from the use of the spices made from the leaves of the curry tree. I think the smell is mostly a combination of all of it mixed together really."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh okay. So what is your favorite Indian dish to make?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I really like Khichdi, it's made from rice and lentils"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Interesting. Im not sure if this is accurate or not but does indian food have a high percentage of vegetarian dishes?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It does, mostly because it's heavily influenced by the Hindu religion and other cultural choices and traditions."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I'm glad I wasn't making a wild assumption or stereotype then. Are Hindis vegetarians, then or only some Hindis? "}]