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Value of home cooked food
Friday, April 15, 2005

It is well said that the person understand or estimate rightly the value of a thing, when he or she goes away from it, or somehow is made to live without it! And this is the case in almost every sphere of life. And food is one of these things! The value of home-cooked food is never recognized when we are living in home and studying, thus, getting the food cooked by mother or sister daily! There is no taste for our tongue and we like the things prepared in the market and hotels. We repeatedly try to miss out those food sessions at the dining table, and try to freak out a little and try various things that are available in the market and have a different taste that from the house!

When I was doing my degree in Production engineering and when I was doing my MBA, I realized that I was missing some thing in my diet—nutrition and the love of my mother--who used to cook everything with so much of care and cleanliness. But in the market, you have to eat everything disregarding the preparation process adopted by the cook there! It is matter of time and urgency that sometimes you have to eat anything that is available at the earliest! And due to bad stroke of luck, you get the things that you like least but have to eat somehow to make your belly filled. I remembered those times the days when I virtually fought with my mother for not preparing the recipe of my choice, but in the market, you have to eat the stuff disregarding your choice or option.

Though you can choose from a variety of options and food items that are at your dispense in the market, but still there is something that is missing and even in the same recipe!

Apart from all the things related to choice and options, there is always a question of cleanliness and the cook who has prepared the material! In India, where people have very large family and many people live together, there used to be customs to eat the food together and this may involve long waits for the person who is not present at the time of dinner or lunch! But there is always a charisma of eating that food with so many people sitting together and there are many things that go in between!

The ladies of the family prepared the food with love and care and adding all the things that are nutritive and effective for certain kinds of diseases that could be ward off by sheer observations by them! And these observations may include the cleanliness of utensils in which the food is serves, the cleanliness of the area where food is prepared, and the cleanliness of the persons who are preparing the food! All these matter a lot and there was every care that was taken by the women! But who is taking care of all these things in the market, where they are more concerned about the sale and disposal of their food than the health of the customers? It is not that all of them are of that sort, but still majority of people prepares the food without considering all the factors related to the health of the customers!

In the mess and canteen of our hostels, we know that there were people who hardly paid any attention to the care of health of the students, and their motive was to get maximum benefit from the mess. There was times when we complained about their being heedless and non-cooperative in our opinions about the preparation of food, but the authorities were never persuaded and the issues were never sorted of completely! These were the times when we realized the true value of food cooked by mothers and sisters; for, the food was solely for our health and us, and there was no other motive behind the preparation of that! There are hundred of recipes that you can try at home and without much expense: the only thing that you will have to spend is your time, but if you ask for those things in the market, you will get them quickly but you will have to spend a lot of money on them! and remember we have a lot of people who have not eaten the whole day even once! I many times abstained from eating that costly stuff when the flash of such people came to my mind!

I also eat a lot of food from the market and sometimes you have to eat it forcibly, for, the women of the family may be ailing or due to some reasons; but, it is a sure fact that nothing can match the overall superiority of the food cooked at home and particularly by the mother!

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