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It has been said that the Keralan Christians believe in serving three kinds of meat with a meal. Perhaps so, that statement crossed my mind as I was offered a meal of fresh fish by Phillipe, a Christian, and his best friend Kumar, AKA “Joey,” a Muslim (see Keralan society). Walking past fresh coconuts gathered in a meadow, we followed the path up into their village where Joey barbecued the fish. The taste was everything one would expect from fish, mussels and lobsters caught that same afternoon in the waters just off Kovalam beach. The plate was a banana leaf. The fuel was palm thatch, recycled from the previous year’s roof. As roofing, it’s good for a season at most, so each year it’s replaced with new. That removed becomes fire fuel — just another use for the ubiquitous coconut.