Between the Stoves
“Maa, pass me the sauce!” “That’s too much, go easy with the cheese, beta.” “That’s what makes it tasty!” “It will make you constipated if you’re not careful,” she laughs. For all of my childhood, I remember making every delicious delicacy with my mother in our black marble-slabbed kitchen, which always made it difficult to clean up the spilt ingredients since they were so difficult to see. Maa and I had thought of making every dish mentioned in our grandmother’s cookbook, which had been passed down through generations. Cooking together in the kitchen says, in simultaneous seclusion and connection,...
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