MY STARTER

I would like to start this blog with immense respect for the people who basically introduced me to food, my grandmother and mother. Food has been my passion always. I remember making special dishes for my family on sundays. I am a person who is finicky about certain things like in which vessel the dish should be kept, the lid, the way the vegetables are chopped for a certain dish, the way it should be presented so on and so forth.

Now the name of my blog as you read is Food Generations which came to my mind with the thought of the food being generated by each generation, the generations changing with the the way each dish is cooked and also, certain traditional dishes being cooked through generations. Another thing that comes to my mind is how things about food have changed through generations. I have seen my grandmother, my mother, myself and now my daughter cooking food. There is a sea of change like, at one time people were invited home for a meal, savouries and sweets were exchanged among relatives and neighbours during festivals or even otherwise. This practice prevailed till recent times.

Now the exchange is zero, the invites are zero too. Birthdays I cooked meals for a group of almost fifty, till my children became 18 /19 yrs of age. This too stopped. The trend now is to meet out in a restaurant and disperse. Everything is an event and needs to be manged by an event manager! The good old rice dal is replaced by risottos, the kheer replaced by puddings, pedha replaced by cake, buttermilk replaced by mojito!! The list is endless, what with globalisation and several countries contributing to our cuisine!!

I would like to reintroduce the home made simple dishes to the young generation, my wish is that the traditional dishes do not fade out in the modern world of globalisation :) I also love eating the modern fusion food and cuisine from all over the world, so along with  the traditional recipes, there will be many more recipes which will have no borders as such.