The super-savour offer
Brunch|August 26, 2023
No matter how hard you try, childhood classics will never taste the way they did. That's because they're laced with longing
SEEMA GOSWAMI
The super-savour offer

What is it about childhood taste memories that they are almost always impossible to recreate once you have grown up? I ask because I have been struggling over the past few weeks to recreate the taste of langar dal I used to eat as a child growing up in Calcutta. Living in a predominately Sikh neighbourhood and practically next door to a gurudwara where my (Hindu) mother was a regular worshipper, I used to live for those special days when Guru Ka Langar would be served.

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