"I can't believe it's our last class! There's so much more food out there to eat," Raiden said wistfully. "We'll just have to save that for another semester, right? But not next semester. Next semester we're zeroing in on potatoes. Don't miss it." Who would want to miss potatoes? "I couldn't decide at first where we should go for our last class--I thought about just going back to New Orleans, because let's face it, that's never a bad idea--but then Gray wrote a bunch of countries down and pulled one out of a hat for me, and he picked a good one: we're going to India! More specifically, Delhi, the capital, home to over twenty-eight million people and the second-largest metropolitan area in the world, after Tokyo.

"Now, Delhi has a strong Punjabi influence, but because it's the capital people from all over India have come here, so there are other influences from all over the country, which means you can find all different kinds of Indian food here--and yes, there are different kinds of food, because India actually has a lot of different cultures and languages. A lot of the food in India is vegetarian, due to strong local religious influences, but we'll also be trying various meats today, and most of the food will be full of spices, because they're plentifully available in this region--and they happily adopted ones that came from abroad, like the chili pepper--and they make things taste good." Hmm. He might have to keep an eye on the English girl. "Today we're gonna go on a food tour to experience as much as we can in as short an amount of time as we can, so let's go!"