How I finally learnt to cook in 2020
Short answer: Coronavirus/Covid-19. Long answer: My cooking skills have largely been limited to making maggi, tea, boiling water and baking. The one time I tried to make poha, it was a flash in the pan. Cooking is a life skill I could never acquire despite watching my mother do it for nearly three decades. Learning to cook didn't even feature on my list of resolutions at the beginning of each year. Even surya namaskars made it to that list, and that's saying something. Coronavirus sneaked into India at the same time that I lost my job. Which meant I had a lot of free time with nothing but an abyss of mental agony. I took up an old hobby of embroidery to get through the day. And now with no cook or cleaning lady I found myself lumbering in the kitchen. I decided to go against the grain on day 1 of lockdown. I was going to make Bhindi. I'm sure there is a medical condition associated with bhindi that scientists have not been able to unravel yet. Every time I eat bhin...