Comments on: Remembering Kozhakattai and Gulzar http://www.withinandwithout.com/2006/08/remembering-kozhakattai-and-gulzar/ Arbitrary Obsessions. Cities. History. Music. Feminism. Maami-isms. Patterns. Halwa. Identities. Free Verse. The Internets. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:53:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Neha Viswanathan http://www.withinandwithout.com/2006/08/remembering-kozhakattai-and-gulzar/comment-page-1/#comment-4062 Neha Viswanathan Mon, 28 Aug 2006 16:21:09 +0000 http://www.withinandwithout.com/?p=904#comment-4062 Nithya: We just have to learn to make them! But they are rather time and effort intensive. Having processed my first batch - I am not sure I'd have the enthusiasm to make them on an average Sunday. Vi: Oh yes. Isn't stealing from the kitchen the best? When you can go to your favourite corner and gobble it all up? Mohib: He was definitely a bad cook! Tilotamma: Thanks so much for that link! Wonderful read. Having spent most of my life as a Madrasi - what a South Indian morphs into once outside "the water". As an aside - I am known to amuse people with stories of bad pronounciation and word errors that my family has committed over the years. Makes for good conversation at least! Nithya: We just have to learn to make them! But they are rather time and effort intensive. Having processed my first batch – I am not sure I’d have the enthusiasm to make them on an average Sunday.

Vi: Oh yes. Isn’t stealing from the kitchen the best? When you can go to your favourite corner and gobble it all up?

Mohib: He was definitely a bad cook!

Tilotamma: Thanks so much for that link! Wonderful read. Having spent most of my life as a Madrasi – what a South Indian morphs into once outside “the water”. As an aside – I am known to amuse people with stories of bad pronounciation and word errors that my family has committed over the years. Makes for good conversation at least!

]]> By: tilotamma http://www.withinandwithout.com/2006/08/remembering-kozhakattai-and-gulzar/comment-page-1/#comment-4021 tilotamma Sun, 27 Aug 2006 23:21:25 +0000 http://www.withinandwithout.com/?p=904#comment-4021 http://www.sulekha.com/blogs/blogdisplay.aspx?cid=4275 Palekar-Delhi. Well apropos of nothing, have you read this piece in Sulekha? I normally don't go there but this is one of the good ones... http://www.sulekha.com/blogs/blogdisplay.aspx?cid=4275

Palekar-Delhi. Well apropos of nothing, have you read this piece in Sulekha? I normally don’t go there but this is one of the good ones…

]]> By: Mohib http://www.withinandwithout.com/2006/08/remembering-kozhakattai-and-gulzar/comment-page-1/#comment-3977 Mohib Sun, 27 Aug 2006 03:04:55 +0000 http://www.withinandwithout.com/?p=904#comment-3977 Recently we had an oppurtunity to share our apartment with a Maharastrian guy for a month or so. I heard the word Modak for the first time from him. He prepared them a couple of time. I did not like them that much. May be he was just a bad cook. Recently we had an oppurtunity to share our apartment with a Maharastrian guy for a month or so. I heard the word Modak for the first time from him. He prepared them a couple of time. I did not like them that much. May be he was just a bad cook.

]]> By: Vi http://www.withinandwithout.com/2006/08/remembering-kozhakattai-and-gulzar/comment-page-1/#comment-3965 Vi Sat, 26 Aug 2006 22:50:53 +0000 http://www.withinandwithout.com/?p=904#comment-3965 I know...I'm in my dorm room, and I can't have any kozhukkattais either, and I can't go home. I remember stealing bits of the coconut jaggery mixer and hiding it, so I could eat it raw (after neveythaim, of course). My mom always wondered why she was always left with more maavu than thengai. I know…I’m in my dorm room, and I can’t have any kozhukkattais either, and I can’t go home. I remember stealing bits of the coconut jaggery mixer and hiding it, so I could eat it raw (after neveythaim, of course). My mom always wondered why she was always left with more maavu than thengai.

]]> By: Nithya http://www.withinandwithout.com/2006/08/remembering-kozhakattai-and-gulzar/comment-page-1/#comment-3963 Nithya Sat, 26 Aug 2006 22:07:35 +0000 http://www.withinandwithout.com/?p=904#comment-3963 Aah...kozhukkattai. You have evoked some strong gastronomical memories, Neha. When I was growing up in Chennai, my mom used to make kozhukkaattai only during Pillayaar Chathurthi. Why not more often, it didn't occur to ask? But when I visited my parents a few years ago and casually mentioned them, I found my mom and mom-in-law busy in the kitchen making kozhukkattais the next morning. Things like this don't happen that often. Where can I go now for kozhukkattai, I wonder. Aah…kozhukkattai. You have evoked some strong gastronomical memories, Neha. When I was growing up in Chennai, my mom used to make kozhukkaattai only during Pillayaar Chathurthi. Why not more often, it didn’t occur to ask? But when I visited my parents a few years ago and casually mentioned them, I found my mom and mom-in-law busy in the kitchen making kozhukkattais the next morning. Things like this don’t happen that often. Where can I go now for kozhukkattai, I wonder.

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