I have never attended a wedding with no lunch or a dinner. I don't think I will ever attend even one. I am eagerly looking forward to attend those two weddings in a month's time. Apart from being present and bless the new weds, I can have a delicious lunch. Yes, my strength is my food. But that very food is my weakness as well.
My friend is a good blogger of food recipes. She keeps blogging daily some item or other which I would have prepared, eaten several times. But there is always a twist in her recipe. Some new ingredient or combination makes it interesting. Another friend shared me a blog that lists 14 breakfast places in Bangalore. Yes I must go to those places with an all-empty stomach. Latest - a few nice researches are struggling hard to find the link between saturated fats and coronary disease. They are not able to find any concrete, visible evidence. I sincerely hope they don't ever. And they publish that "non-discovery" boldly in all leading news papers and possible TV channels. I can start buying and consuming 250 gms of that "ghee" every month instead of 50 gm "chotta" packet, that too once in six months !
There is going to be "Aaratu", festival at our Thirumala Devasthana at Cherlai, my home town in 3 weeks' time. When we were small kids, it was food festival for us. When God will be taken through different streets in those last 5 days of the 8 day festival, we would also go to those streets and visit houses of our friends and relatives. We had a chance to taste different homemade items from different places. We had a license to eat. Yes, all good things must come to an end. With the all important feast at the temple. We would sadly be reminded that we had to wait till next Apr or Dec to go for another kill.
We had visited Kutty uncle's house. We had been discussing about politics, weather, cruelty towards the poor and sick, scarcity of water and food et all for half an hour or so. My four year son did not understand one thing, and he asked loudly to me "Anga khaan kaayin melnaa ve" ( here food won't be available at all ? ). He was clear in his mind as why he was there. Kutty uncle was curious to know what my son was asking. I told him that he wanted to get back home quickly. Luckily Kutty uncle did not know Konkani, and more importantly my son did not know Malayalam which avoided further embarrassment !
We, the most eligible bachelors had taken a house for rent during our initial days in Bangalore."Today we need to cook and eat at home, let's have chicken itself" announced Jalal. I accompanied him to the shop to select a live and healthy one, a chicken weighing two Kgs. Brought home that whole chicken, just "skinned out", Jalal wanted to cut and clean it himself - he wanted to cook end to end. And he settled in the corner of that 9x5 spacious kitchen to cut and clean. I could not watch that cruelty!. So I stepped out. Oh yes, we had a feast that day - chicken soup, chicken kebab, chicken roast, and chicken biriyani. Not at home but at "Village Inn", a near by restaurant. And there was a feast for another group, those stray dogs. They had main course of 1900 gms of chicken pieces, suspected by Jalal that they were non-eatable by humans, along with those 100 gms of edible stuff as dessert !!
We had taken our customer for a dinner in a star hotel. My boss gave him a freehand to order what he wanted, after all customer is god right ?. That god ordered a "heavenly" wine which costed 40,000 rupees. My boss's quarterly business development budget blown by just one bottle.
Food for thought. Everybody agrees one should "eat to live" and not "live to eat". Agreement alone will not be enough. One has to practice. The skill is in eating 3/4 full. Eat delicious food, enjoy every bit of it, but then stop eating it after consuming 75% of what you "abnormally" would have consumed. It is not easy, but it's possible. It's healthy too !
Feed your guests with what they like, what they enjoy most. But be careful while giving freedom to them. Unless you want to pretend at the end of the party, that you are drunk with half a glass of that most expensive wine in the world !! And be sober for a good part of rest of your life !!!
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