Writer Barbara Costikyan notes, “In the childhood memories of every good cook, there’s a large kitchen, a warm stove, a simmering pot, and a mom.”

Home cooked food, hand made food, food by the lady of the house – all these are so firmly entrenched in an average middle class Indian psyche… …

I myself would have never imagined that I would do it BUT for next ten days it has been decreed that the kitchen at our home be closed!!! No meals to be cooked at home.

Swati protested and her mom hollered at her when she heard what her daughter had agreed to but the fact is Swati has so much on her hand that we cannot afford her spending time in the kitchen, at least till the new maid joins in OR if we are doomed for it till we seriously reschedule our life… …

  • Does this mean that you get to eat out every night?

    • Ah! that is a temptation – but Swati after having spent an obscene amount of money and outrageous hours in exercising to lose 4 inches off her tummy would kill me at the suggestion.

      There is a lady who cooks and delivers meals – we have contracted her for 10 days