Cook and See vs Food Porn

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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And Today is…

 
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 [...]

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Madras Maydam and the Chennai Check-Out Girls

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 [...]

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Gaming Pwns

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, [...]

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