Once the Maharaja of Travancore ordered a grand dinner in his Palace in the afternoon before the dinner the Maharaja entered the kitchen to survey the dishes that had been prepared for the feast. What are you going to do with those vegetable scraps? He asked the cook pointing to the basket of scraps near the cook . The cook replied they are waste. We will throw them away. You cannot waste all this bits and pieces of vegetables. Find a way to use them the Maharaja commander sternly and walked away the cook was in a fix and kept staring at the vegetable scraps for sometimes suddenly an Idea flashed across his mind. He took all the vegetable Bits washed them and cleaned them. Well, then he cut them into long strips. He put them in a huge pot and placed it on the fire cook.