How You Can Keep Your Chapatis All-Day Soft for Several Hours
Food is the simplest form of joy and fusion of the human spirit. Absolutely no one can deny the indescribable happiness that surges through us when met with the wafting smells of our favourite dishes. The delicious aroma of homemade baingan bartha and chapathi , hot pepper rasam , and rich, sugary rice pudding washes us over with nostalgia, reminding us of our mother’s loving touch. It can dissipate the stresses from our mind as does a mother’s hug. Sipping hot, ginger tea with milk and honey is a memory dripping with sugary sweetness, a nostalgic metaphor for togetherness and familial love. As we grow older, we do everything in our power to recreate these memories, and in a culture like India, memories are traced through food. When missing our family and the uncomplicated advice of motherly love, we wish to recreate her essence in our kitchen and try to make foods that were close to her heart to hold on to her memory for a little bit longer. But for some reason, our aloo parath...