In the first flush of marriage, I wanted to make pavakkai pitlai, mor kozhambu, kai murukku and kunja laadu for a spouse who ate kasha mangsho, aamer chatni, and jinghe posto. To assist me in my culinary misadventures, a maami couriered three volumes of Meenakshiammal’s cook books. Cook and See, the title read atop the [...]
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Cook and See vs Food Porn
Posted in maamis, tagged cook and see, meenakshiammal, padma lakshmi, sabita radhakrishna, tamil cuisine on April 27, 2009 | 35 Comments »
And Today is…
Posted in maamis on April 11, 2009 | 56 Comments »
Just another day! A happy day, wish those in the know.
I wasn’t a much photographed child, unlike the first born, and hence I have relied on memories. In fact I have never been photographed on the day in all the years that have followed. Like all of us, I have no recollection of my first.
I [...]
Madras Maydam and the Chennai Check-Out Girls
Posted in maamis, tagged besant nagar beach, chennai, madras, summer, tirunelveli on June 5, 2008 | 21 Comments »
Maami is passé. It’s Maydam these days.
Maydam is on summer vacation. She snorts as the white glare of a ruthless Chennai sun douses her homecoming in perspiration and skull-bursting heat.A summer storm torpedoes dust, grime and mineral to cake her face. She licks the salt on her dry lips as if to recall a [...]
Gaming Pwns
Posted in maamis, tagged gaming, IPL, pwn, soccer widows, SRK on April 19, 2008 | 20 Comments »
The proceedings of the Ladies Club have come to a halt for a coffee break. The ladies are gathered in the hall, togged in their polysilk saris and tussar salwar kameezes, battling the slow whir of fans and the sluggish function of the A/Cs, awaiting their speaker.
“Kaapi romba mosam, tch“, says Mrs. Kunchitapatham to Mrs.Swaminathan, both of whom, henceforth, [...]
