The magic of a full course meal... is not something you can just create with a few clicks on an app; it is something that is a labour of love, a test of tradition, and a taste of home," Roopa Nabar writes when describing her traditional village kitchen in her first book, the newly-released Varan Bhaat To Biryani: My Romance With Food.
Married at 22 and a mother at 23, Roopa, now 58, was well settled in her routine as she juggled office discussions with PTA meetings.
Through the years, her love for food and cooking hadn't suffered as she dished out delicacies for her family. "As a child, during the summer holidays, my parents and I used to go to our native village," she reminisces fondly. "I remember waking up to the smell of breakfast infused with the woody aroma of the clay chulha. On most days, breakfast would be a simple rice porridge (bhaatachi pej) and a spicy, tangy backyard vegetable preparation called dabdabit; on others, it would be bhakri with dry fish (sukke). And, to beat the heat, we had delicious raw mango panha."
This story is from the September 2022 edition of Femina.
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