Where has the kitchen gone

Kitchen was the most important room in the house. Mother would pour all her love and blessings in her food which used to be freshly prepared and served . Entire family would eat together. Kitchen was the glue which kept the family together, kept family healthy. Kitchen was the room thru which a mother would manifest all her love for her family.

We may be a proud nation of young people, but we may be staring at a health catastrophe 20 years down the line. The kitchen has been reduced to a slab and food has been outsourced to swiggy, zomato and maggi. Cooking is now a lazy activity, waste of time. We may appear healthy now but are we going to be so after 20 years or so?

Let us bring back the kitchen. Let us believe in our ancient old wisdom that real nourishment is in the emotions with which the food is cooked and the holy or respectful way it is consumed. Let us switch off TV, keep our mobiles away, and listen to actual voices and noise and laughter on dinner table.

Let us give mothers our love and gratitude. Let us treat mother’s cooking as the best, healthiest, most respected activity in the world. Let us bring joy of cooking back to her life, let us give back her kitchen.