Upendra: Do you want to go to the temple now? It's nine.
Prabhupāda: Half past nine.
Upendra: Half past nine.
Prabhupāda: Where is Tamāla?
Upendra: I think in the next room. I haven't looked yet. Should I call him?
Prabhupāda: Half past nine.
Upendra: Half past nine. (break)
Prabhupāda: ...you can put masalā, bhadraka,(?) little salt, little turmeric.
Upendra: Anise.
Prabhupāda: Eh?
Upendra: Anise?
Prabhupāda: Yes. And if the pots are made of earth, earthen pot, it is still better.
Upendra: When earthen pots are cooked with, they are finished afterwards?
Prabhupāda: Yes. Throw it. That was the Hindu system. The earthen pot is used daily, and it is thrown away, specially for Deity. So Caitanya Mahāprabhu was sitting on the rejected earthen pots. Philosophy discussion was going on.
Upendra: With His mother.
Prabhupāda: Yes. So earthen pot is so nice. Jagannātha Purī, they cook it in earthen pot and throw it away. It is very palatable. You can try an earthen pot.
Upendra: Yes. (aside:) I will make rice, ḍāl, and preparation called laktha, bread balls that go around a cow dung fire, in an earthen pot.
Prabhupāda: You can begin experiment, one, two, three, and become perfect.
Upendra: Yes.
Prabhupāda: It is very digestive, very palatable and suitable for me, this kind of food. Yes. It will automatically increase appetite. It is so nice.
Upendra: It all sounds very natural and wholesome, clay pot...
Prabhupāda: So you can try.
Upendra: ...cow dung fire, rice, ḍāl, bread.
Prabhupāda: So? When you are going?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Whenever you're ready, Śrīla Prabhupāda.
Prabhupāda: I am ready.