Adoption is fine. But you do it to meet your own selfish need as you have failed to procreate. Imagine if your parents had failed to perform this simple function of life. First produce your own child and then adopt as many as you desire.
Using bare hands to serve food by
madhusoodana rao on Dec 24, 2013 06:32 PM | Hide replies | Hide message
You need to travel a bit north of kerala to udupi where most of the food items in the sadya (feast) are served in bare hands , more so in at the Chowki in Udupi`s Krishna Matt.
ya . serving in banana leaf is great . while i can very well remember the marriages in which traditional serving was done i can hardly recall buffet type marriages. Also the service was done by family members and lot of interaction , jokes and discussions were possible earlier. but nowadays attending buffet marriages is just a formality and fast like Twenty20 match. Ofcourse in traditional serving also wastage can be avoided,as Experienced servers know and ask before serving to avoid wastage. But we also can see lot of wastage in buffet system.!! And if the used plates are kept in the dining room itself we cannot stand there also and make a run for the exit....
i found that traditional meals at any function, may it be at my own state west bengal or in any other places, always better than buffet. i also love the way people served and i really relish it. :)
Though traditionally the dinners are served on plantain leaves or plates, these days, when per plate cost of dinner is increasing at astronomical rate, it is better to save as much as possible from going waste. Buffet is the best answer for the same since the guests can select the items of their choice and eat so that remaining can be used to serve others or poor people languishing in Anathashramas or even to the animals. I feel this change is for the better. Traditional food serving method can be well adopted when the gathering is small within the family or friends circle, so that we can individually ask and serve as per their choice and needs. It is even better in these assemblies also, to serve food to children by feeding them using common food bowl asking them to take the food from the server using their hands and not by using plates or leaves (Kai Thuthu in Kannada). This too serves the purpose and saves wastage.
Re: No buffet dinners please, we're Indians
by Parthasarathy R on Dec 02, 2013 03:46 PM
Mr.Nagaraju is absolutely correct. In traditional practice the food is served beforehand with the result there is always the danger of it being attacked by flies and insects in many marriage halls before a guest takes his seat. With AC/fans on, the food loses warmth and tastes stale. An enormous quantity of food is also wasted. The problem of seat can be overcome in a buffet by suitably arranging for seats. That should not pose any problem.
Re: Re: No buffet dinners please, we're Indians
by sri dg on Dec 02, 2013 03:57 PM
our country population is more than a 1 billion or 120 cr.So imagine the amount of excreta India produces daily, and if some one has lose motions, then it will be liquid in nature as well.So better every one fasts on the wedding day to reduce the excreta burden on this earth
Though buffet lunch/dinners are good in a way, the author has given the negative points. She has noticed these things but in the best of catering agencies, the hired people dont care about hygiene, much less about personal care. Unless there is personal supervision by the family, it is unlikely that these finer things are cared for. But when it comes to meals, served by again hired gang, they dont care how much one wants or can consume & since it is not their loss, dump whatever comes to their ladle/hand & disappear, wasting at least 20% food, not to speak of left overs. It is almost impossible to control hygiene, quantity & above all taste & finally cost to hosts.
We are in this field since last ten years, you are perfectly right, but do not enrol all in a line, so many preparing n serving under hygienic conditions, atleast we ourselves, very interesting your message. Thanks again.
Diva ji you have a great style in writing articles....... as there is a tinge of hidden sarcastic humour in it..... i feel you should think this as a career rather than doing a normal 9-7 job..... Anyway Congrats and Wishing you a happy married life
I have been longing to attend a function where food is served the Indian traditional way. It is becoming extinct. One thing I remember about this traditional way, is that all the friends and relatives would offer their help/turn in serving the food to others, and their would be lot of chit-chat with jokes from all corners of croud when the food was being served. Now its all hired men in flashy attire with artificial smile to serve the food.
