Talking to diets one day, a friend of said she could give up anything but roti. I said, No, the other stuff was more fun. But she said Think about it: would you enjoy alu gohst without it? Or gobi matar? Or dal?
And she was right: there are days when i try to cut down the no. Of rotis in my lunch and the meal becomes boring. However delicious the daal sabzi, they're incomplete.
How does one describe the taste of a roti? It's not salty or sweet or anything; it's wrapper, a foil, a base for other taste. And yet the smell of a phulka on a fire, getting speckled and puffing up, or a paratha being fried, turning golden brown, crisp outside and flaky within, and very definite flavours.
The one i find most compelling, though, is when the smell of one getting baked in a tandoor wafts across from somewhere; you can almost taste the crisp browned edges and the little bumps of air pockets; there's almost a sweetness to it, calculated to whip up an appetite.
Will continue........
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