![]() ![]() ![]() At home, we sisters always managed to persuade mom to cook Maggi in the absence of our father, else all the vegetables present in the house shall adorn it and fade away the real taste of Maggi. Although, the senior-most standard at school was expected to convey exemplify-able conduct, especially at a hard-core all-girls convent academy, our gang managed to broke the lunch-confined-to-recess rule & swabbed the food from our lunch boxes, just one hour after the morning assembly itself, particularly the ones suspected & proved to be crammed with Maggi. My favorite was the much prized – Maggi noodles which are still worshipped by me. Honestly speaking, only when mom’s preparations are not around, our taste buds live through them the most. Lunchbox memories take most of us back to good old school days where, ghar ka khana was taken for granted & anything processed was relished to the core. I have lost touch with the Guju girls but am always thankful to them as they showed me there is much more flavours to india and it was their lunch box that made me curious about the various cuisines we have. It was the simplest of meals, but i still remember the taste. The softest of phulkas with a dash of ghee, dal that had a tinge of sweetness and cabbage which as shredded so finely and fried in ghee, hing,chilli powder, turmeric, salt and a bit of sugar, the meal always ended with a sweet a jalebi, jamun etc. I still remember the food, simple, fragrant and delicious. Thankfully my classmates were kind enough to share their food with their hard core beef eating class mates, while they were staunch vegetarian. During school lunches, servants would come delivering huge stainless steel dhabas tied up in colourful cloth. Since it was a coastal area, We had a strong Gujarati community in Calicut but we never thought they were different in any way untill lunch time. ![]() I studied in kerala and the only food i knew about was Kerala cuisine. ![]()
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