Here’s a little video from a workshop I conducted with theater students at a public university in the southern Indian state of Kerala. They had first served lunch to me and my stage manager, Bob, and had laughed a lot over my inability to pick up their style of eating. You mix the rice, at the center, with all the different sauces and other foods along the perimeter. And you only use your right hand, for the important reason I mentioned in a previous blog entry. In my effort to improve my technique, I’d started muttering “Mix mix, eat eat!” as I smooshed the food. This became a popular chant among the students. At the end of the workshop, as I departed, they all called out, “Mix mix, eat eat!”