Yitzhak Carmeli in another video and this time from Sri Lanka where he met the Tamils who are known for the vegetables that grow in their land being the tastiest in the world • Watch
Parashat Nizvim: “כָא֙רֶט֙ תָוִֹ֣יא צַמָ֔ה וקְָּּ֖ה ֵרוִֶ֣יה תַחְמ֑יחַ” (from the Haftar).
Until about 170 years ago, their food was only wild leaves and seeds. They do not eat animals, including fish, because they are vegetarians. Until the British came to Sri Lanka then it was still called Ceylon.
Samuel Baker was the first Britisher to discover to the Hindu Tamils the north of the earth and the wonder that the earth can also produce various types of food in different shapes, colors and flavors and since then everything is history, the vegetables grown by the Tamils are considered the tastiest in the world.