This Indian life by Shoba Narayan: Recipe for a relationship

Struggling to cook? Phone your relatives in the ancestral village

I am cooking at home these days, which is a disaster because I am not a good cook. My mother tried her best to teach me techniques. It is just that I get bored halfway through making the dish, and decide – on the spot – to add what is at hand – say, raisins to a rasam (sacrilege) or cumin to a risotto – just to see what happens. Usually, what happens is that the dishes go untouched and we order in. 

Indian recipe blogs thrive because they offer precise measurements(Photo imaging: Parth Garg)

In a lockdown, telephone conversations are great because they are distancing but social