I don’t want to spend too much time on the off-campus eateries this week, since most of the point of 5 Days is to explore Cornell Dining’s offerings, but today was one of my rare off-campus lunch jaunts, meeting friends for Sangam’s Indian lunch buffet before they leave town.
The all-you-can-eat buffet at Sangam on Eddy Street.
These friends happen to eat gluten-free all the time, so they’ve had some good advice for me this week, and they picked Sangam because nearly everything on the buffet is gluten-free! The naan, or traditional Indian bread, isn’t, but other than a couple of items the staff pointed out, just about everything else uses ground chick peas or even rice flour in situations where western cooking might use wheat flour. The dosa, for example, is a crepe-like bread that’s great for sopping up saucy Indian food, and it’s made from rice flour, lentils, and chick peas. That’ll have to qualify as my pancake for Pancake Tuesday!
I was pretty sure I’d find plenty of ways of eating vegetables and meat this week without having to worry about gluten, but it was nice to see this buffet of prepared food fit the bill. Participants on other teams will be glad to hear that much of the buffet is vegetarian (the dishes that don’t obviously feature chicken) and a few items are vegan.
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