Nostalgia

Nostalgia Friends I was reading "Kitchens that we carry" (The Hindu Magazine, November 8). From the Tamil & Telugu kitchen recipes discussed in the article, my thoughts jumped to the first kitchen from which I took my breakfast, lunch and dinner during my school days. That was a 8x5 room inside the temple where we stayed : Father who was the temple Pujari, my elder sister and me. A related Blog Post : https://www.warriersblog.com/2022/09/nostalgia-my-childhood-days-inside.html Excerpts : "I remember one ammayaar (Tamil Brahmin woman) aged around 70 years making daily visits to the temple. By the time she reached, my father would be busy in the thidappalli preparing naivedyam for the deity or food for us. Ammayaar would make her presence felt with a loud question standing just near the thidappalli: Innentha koottan? (What curry you are preparing today?). My dad would immediately come out and explain the recipe, before proceeding to the sanctum sanctorum to give her prasadam. After accepting the prasadam she would come towards me to make enquiries about my studies. She would bless me and complete her pradakshina." M G Warrier A The kitchens we carry The kitchens we carry - The Hindu https://share.google/7c3qmhJBgmgaSE2sv Excerpts : "All South Indian food looks deceptively similar from a distance. Idli, dosa, rice, chutney, rasam, sambar. But zoom in, and the differences reveal themselves slowly. A dry guntur chilli in one kitchen, a gundu milagai in another. Onions move between ullipayi and chinna vengayam (the big and small versions). Tamarind is sharper here, softer there. Even turmeric seems to behave differently. Over the years, our kitchen developed its own rhythm. Some things remained stubbornly Telugu. Others stayed firmly Tamil. Between them emerged a third version — not really shaped by intention but more by repetition and adjustment. Chutneys shift texture depending on who is making them. Even dal changes quietly, depending on what tempers it, what is added first. Our children have grown up inside this arrangement and accepted it without question, because to them, this is simply how food tastes." B Quote for today : Quote of the day by Socrates: “He who is not content with what he has…” – a reminder why chasing more in life may never bring the happiness you are looking for - The Times of India https://share.google/nvV3l9bkqj5QQ1AFS Socrates said it in ancient Greece. Sadly, it remains even more relevant today. He said, “He who is not content with what he has, would not be content with what he would like to have.”