Introduction

Introduction

So I guess I should introduce myself first. This is me:

And so is this!

and again.

You see, the thing about these photographs is that it looks like I'm at home in the kitchen but the trouble is - I'm not. I'm not a foodie. I eat all sorts of rubbish (I'm a student after all) and I have to confess... I'm actually a terrible cook. And I'm not talking about measuring amounts or rubbish baking. I mean burning soup and never getting toast right the first time. It's probably worse because my whole family is centred around food, and not its just the Kumars. Our entire lives are centred around meals, days are structured around it, weekly meal plans are made, shopping lists constructed, ingredients purchased.

My family enjoy food. Not just the meal, the debate of what to have for dinner, how we should make it and what will accompany the mouth-watering morsels that we envisage. My mother and father buy fresh ingredients and prepare the food together. A pinch of love here, and a sprinkling of laughter there. I did not inherit this love of cooking but I'm forced to change. Here it goes. My name is Indu and I'm a bad cook.