Hyderabad, Feb. 23 -- English has its "delicious". Urdu possesses a thousand ways to say "lazeez". Telugu food vocabulary has nuanced layers of "kammaga undi" or "adhiripoyindi". But when you are standing in the middle of a Hyderabad food street with a bowl of haleem in hand, and all languages fail you, Dakhni comes to the rescue with its loud and emotive lexicon.

In Dakhni, food is never merely "mazeka", it is an all-encompassing, high-octane event that demands a vocabulary as large. While other languages describe food from a distance, the language of Deccan moves in close and describes each precise moment of what food does to your body.

From the numbing sting of the first bite to the sweet intoxication of the last, Siasat.com has prep...