Comments on: Will Curry Call Her Home One Day?

Comment on Will Curry Call Her Home One Day? by: renu

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:08:26 +0000

that was really beautiful, barbara. here,in kochi, both me and rajan often share our childhood food memories. unfortunately (or, fortunately ?), we never had such a wide variety of food around in our childhood. it was always rice, rice and more rice !

can you imagine that my staple during school days was rice in the morning, rice for lunch and rice for dinner ?

for breakfast, it was rice with some ghee, some dal (lentil), and pappad. for lunch it was rice in a steel tiffin box topped with two curries, one with gravy and one dry. my mother had an additional bottle of buttermilk and pickle on top of rice. for dinner it was rice and curries from lunch ! idly / dosa/ puttu etc. for breakfast was a weekend treat, with both parents working. even now, i love to have my rice-ghee-dal with some salty pappad and some dry stir-fry (upperi).

Comment on Will Curry Call Her Home One Day? by: Maria DaCosta

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:16:29 +0000

Lovely! Like Mist, although we didn’t eat Russian food all the time, Russian food makes me feel cozy, because it reminds me of big family gatherings, when my relatives would make home-made pirozhki, stuffed cabbage (gulupsi), mushrooms in sour cream, smoked salmon, caviar, any kind of pickles….I’m drooling!

Comment on Will Curry Call Her Home One Day? by: Nancy

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 23:04:48 +0000

What a lovely post! I lived in Turkey as a child and my father’s family is from Lebanon so Tabouli, yogurt, dishes with lamb and pilaf are my comfort foods. Neither my brother, sister or I had any problem with all sorts of different foods, maybe because we lived in so many different countries and my parents always had a cook who made the local dishes. Ful Mesdemes in Egypt! Taramosalata in Greece! Pasta with clams in Naples! Roti in Trinidad! But my four nieces - my brother’s kids - would only eat junk like cheeze wiz, chicken munuggets and other crap because my sister-in-law hated to cook and only fed them junk. Even now, when they are grown up, their tastes run to McDonald’s and Taco Bell. So, I suspect that being introduced to good foods - or not - early in life, always stays with you. Your delightful daughter is a true culinary. child of the 21st century.

Comment on Will Curry Call Her Home One Day? by: Libby

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:57:52 +0000

What a lovely thought!

Your daughters will no doubt have many foods that they remember you making with love and help transport them home when they miss you. Lucky them!

When I moved away from home, I often called my dad to ask how he made something or another. He passed away last fall. A couple of weeks ago I was talking to my mom on the phone about how he made bean soup with ham. She had never it herself and I think she missed him. Certain food can help loneliness sometimes, and we’re glad for it.

Comment on Will Curry Call Her Home One Day? by: Harry

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:06:20 +0000

“What we feed our kids early in their lives is what they will want to eat for the rest of their lives.”

Not always. And thank heaven, too. My parents were stunningly conventional when it came to baby and toddler food despite their deep and abiding interest in exotic food for themselves. (Fortunately they eventually fed us what they were eating and fortunately, about a decade after that I got into it myself.)