My Grandmother! An Exclusive Human Interest story!
As a lady living in a little village named Bahadarpur, in Punjab, India, my grandmother would always have to cook food in season. Her and my grandfather owned a farm just outside the village where they grew sugarcane, corn, and wheat and raised cows and chickens. My grandmother had to wake up every morning to milk the cows, gather the eggs and collect wheat or corn to make the meals for the day. In the morning she would make flat breads named parantha and serve it with achar, a preserved pickle. For lunch or dinner, she would make sarso ka saag(pureed spinach dish), paneer(cottage cheese), sabzi(vegetable mix dish) and much more. She had a big family of four kids and a husband to care for, so it wasn’t easy for her. During the day, she would make achars, churn her own ghee (clarified butter), make homemade yogurt and store dry food away for the days to come. During her years in India, she had to use up all her perishable items such as milk and yogurt since the weather was quite hot and she did not own a fridge. So practically every dish she made contained a perishable ingredient in it. My grandmother was well known for her achars as well. She would always take fruit such as mangos, lemons and limes and add chillies, spices and brine to them. Then she would store them in a cool dark place in her house in order to preserve them. On the other hand, cooking was a daily duty and passion for my grandmother. She had to use all the ingredients she could get that were local since no imported items were delivered to her village. Throughout the twelve months of the year she had to use seasonal vegetables. This was sometimes hard for her if there was really hot weather or really rainy weather because most of the vegetables would have died. But in the end she managed to pull through due to her supply of food she had stored away. My grandmother was an amazing person who made some of the best food in the entire world. She followed great cooking rules such as eating in season and eating locally. My grandmother is a person whom I admire everyday for the food she has made, the mentality she has kept about local and seasonal cooking, and for her passion about food.
As a lady living in a little village named Bahadarpur, in Punjab, India, my grandmother would always have to cook food in season. Her and my grandfather owned a farm just outside the village where they grew sugarcane, corn, and wheat and raised cows and chickens. My grandmother had to wake up every morning to milk the cows, gather the eggs and collect wheat or corn to make the meals for the day. In the morning she would make flat breads named parantha and serve it with achar, a preserved pickle. For lunch or dinner, she would make sarso ka saag(pureed spinach dish), paneer(cottage cheese), sabzi(vegetable mix dish) and much more. She had a big family of four kids and a husband to care for, so it wasn’t easy for her. During the day, she would make achars, churn her own ghee (clarified butter), make homemade yogurt and store dry food away for the days to come. During her years in India, she had to use up all her perishable items such as milk and yogurt since the weather was quite hot and she did not own a fridge. So practically every dish she made contained a perishable ingredient in it. My grandmother was well known for her achars as well. She would always take fruit such as mangos, lemons and limes and add chillies, spices and brine to them. Then she would store them in a cool dark place in her house in order to preserve them. On the other hand, cooking was a daily duty and passion for my grandmother. She had to use all the ingredients she could get that were local since no imported items were delivered to her village. Throughout the twelve months of the year she had to use seasonal vegetables. This was sometimes hard for her if there was really hot weather or really rainy weather because most of the vegetables would have died. But in the end she managed to pull through due to her supply of food she had stored away. My grandmother was an amazing person who made some of the best food in the entire world. She followed great cooking rules such as eating in season and eating locally. My grandmother is a person whom I admire everyday for the food she has made, the mentality she has kept about local and seasonal cooking, and for her passion about food.
