My epicurean escapades with the rajma chawal, a North Indian household staple, during my college days bring back the good times spent in hostels and cooperative messes. The words of Irish author George Bernard Shaw would resonate with any food connoisseur, “There is no love sincerer than the love of food.” Shaw isn’t the first to have made this observation, nor will he be the last, for the annals of history bear testimony to the undisputable actuality that man’s intellect has been dominated by his digestive organs.Īs a Punjabi, I could not agree more, for having lived a considerable part of my life in a state where the words of a Punjabi song resonate, “ Khao, piyo, aish karo mitron…”, the essence of my Punjabiyat lies in my plenary indulgence for gluttony.
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