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On the Madras Inherited heritage walk I've just been on around Royapettah in downtown Chennai, we all were invited in to a suite of old houses - only to discover this elderly woman cheerfully cooking dosas. Lots of them! It was barely seven in the morning and she was presiding over quite a production line - as you can see ... Making dosas in Royapettah Feb 2019 https://www.andrewwhitehead.net/blog/chennai-3-dosas-at-dawn 2/19 2/19/2020 Chennai 3: Dosas at dawn - ANDREW WHITEHEAD ANDREW WHITEHEAD Three houses here shared a courtyard and at rst I imagined that she was cooking dosas for everyone in these households. But just after I nished lming, a man came to collect all the cooked dosas in the container by the door - I guess there were twenty or more of them - to take them, as far as I could gather, to a local tea stall for sale as a freshly-cooked breakfast. The cooking of dosas didn't halt - I reckon this woman could easily make fty in an hour. 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