Love and art behind cooking

Love and art behind cooking

With nourishing nutrients
in hygienic environments
when the food is cooked and fed
sound health is bound to be bred,
what is the need of every human being.
Courts it upon the art behind cooking
and the ingredients, visible and invisible
proven, it is with illustrations ample.
Behind cooking, play love, and artistry
as its constituents, vital roles they carry
wonder I at cooking, the variation
on past and present, a comparison,
also at past practices, comment on the man modern
“Basics of hygiene they in pat did never learn”
despite his frozen food and advanced preservation
with star hotels and the commercial mass preparation
using toxic methods, sparing no step for insect prevention
stll claim the present that past practice is no comparison.
But disagrees with it, this submission,
reminiscing the past glorious recollection.
Unlike the present-day
where the cost has a stronger say
than, seven decades earlier
the least men did bother
on the time and labor spent
as love to feed, them, nothing them can dent.
A cocking range, a freezer, and a micro oven
seek in them the present man labor hour to shorten
and also to ease the cooking labor
awed by the efforts put in by their ancestor
the arduous precooking preparation
the aids to cook utensils fuels and oven earthen
to cook and serve health better.
all are from nature and perish in nature
leaf plantain coconut shell wooden blade
many crockeries from earth and wood were made
All friendly to the environment
Unlike, uses in the days present.
wonder we
when we compare and see
the art of cooking a decade earlier
at the method, time, aids, and labor
call those at present as unhygienic, funny
ill spending energy and time with satires many.
Needs it volumes on the aids then to say
those used from nature in a traditional way
As per customs and rituals
change them at regular intervals
the aids to cook

giving the kitchen a refreshing look.
Love adoration and affection from hearts’ core
in the process of cooking they pour
intense for a close relation
cooking from the heart with elation.
May the cook be a mother or grandmother
building special nutrients in the food to nurture
for those who stay in their hearts’ abyss,
what present-day cooking does surely miss
the present day aids are built on automation
make a cooking commercial for mass production.
The contribution of a cook’s artistry is rarely seen
in both love and art while preparing in any cuisine
compared to the past the present pales
a conclusion that the comparison unveils.
on hygiene sand on energy degradation
look we must at past the cook’s action.
Earthen pots replaced at regular intervals
guided by ancestral traditions and rituals
are more hygienic and aids to health at less cost
but the modern-day metallic pots that look glossed
with coatings over coatings previous
and sure, constituents are built, poisonous
stolen forever from Earth's lap
never can we fill up the gap.
The artistry then when we look
with the ingredients to cook
prepared with arduous labor
but with love at heart’s core,
the cooking and serving aids
replaced that unhygienic it evades
the cow dung wash from the oven
and walls around the kitchen
keep germs away with healthy practice
now cleanliness looks to it as the novice
even with peepholes to inspect the kitchen
well exhibited but everything is kept hidden
Awe me reminiscing about those now
with adoration for those artists, I bow.
who could make dishes
that one ever cherishes
from a leaf or root from the yard
from ingredients that now men discard
with minimum ingredients at hand
ladies then make dishes tasty grand
where with all ingredients in plenty
for other reasons now we make them scanty
with names of dishes chosen from the world over
ornamenting to tempt, nutrients do not matter.
Cooking for a family with its joint chain
over earthen Chula wet fuels in rain
enduring the smoke fire they get
cook them at a fast and slow rate
regulating the heat by control of fuels fed
with minimum from the dry stock from the shed
Drying the cow dung cake
excellent fuel they make
burnt ashes make the manure
and as medicines many ailments to cure.
with love at heart for health and hygiene
that traditional age-long practices mean
never the artistry of the cook waver
love guiding artistry to cook better,
Reminisce I with heart at tears
living now on sold food with fears
then the suspended shortage of dishes
beyond reach of children and pet's wishes
pickles made from a backyard garden
pots cups glasses and plates earthen
eating on plantain leaves green
with decorated walls, kitchen kept clean
such many a wonderful scene
and everywhere inbuilt hygiene

P K r Routray

in the service of the Lord