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    This document discusses the author's nostalgia for a family tradition of cooking and sharing chhole kulche every year on May 27th to remember a deceased uncle. The author fondly remembers helping their mother cook the chhole as a child and watching her add special ingredients like ginger, tomatoes, green chilies, and spices. Eating the soft kulche oozing with the flavorful chhole transports the author back to the best memories of time spent with family at home.

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    This document discusses the author's nostalgia for a family tradition of cooking and sharing chhole kulche every year on May 27th to remember a deceased uncle. The author fondly remembers helping their mother cook the chhole as a child and watching her add special ingredients like ginger, tomatoes, green chilies, and spices. Eating the soft kulche oozing with the flavorful chhole transports the author back to the best memories of time spent with family at home.

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    This document discusses the author's nostalgia for a family tradition of cooking and sharing chhole kulche every year on May 27th to remember a deceased uncle. The author fondly remembers helping their mother cook the chhole as a child and watching her add special ingredients like ginger, tomatoes, green chilies, and spices. Eating the soft kulche oozing with the flavorful chhole transports the author back to the best memories of time spent with family at home.

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    Nostalgia

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    Komal Arora
    This document discusses the author's nostalgia for a family tradition of cooking and sharing chhole kulche every year on May 27th to remember a deceased uncle. The author fondly remembers helping their mother cook the chhole as a child and watching her add special ingredients like ginger, tomatoes, green chilies, and spices. Eating the soft kulche oozing with the flavorful chhole transports the author back to the best memories of time spent with family at home.

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    Nostalgia – It comes in different shapes and sizes.

    Wrapped in layers of
    memory, sautéed with tidbits of imagination and relished with a satisfying,
    almost orgasmic, after taste — one that you can conjure up only in your
    gastronomic mind space.

    Food nostalgia is all about reliving the experience of food and its associated
    memories and stories that all of us long to share.
    Being away from home for the past one year makes me miss “ghar ka khaana”
    Going back through my memory lane, waking up on the morning of 27th May
    every year and feeling the aroma of masalas, my nose sniffing the air, my feet
    puttering along the hall and down the stairs to the kitchen with that wonderful
    smell and sight of Mumma cooking Chhole in large aluminium patias. A
    25years old family ceremony of cooking 15kgs of Chhole and Kulcha on 27th
    May- the death anniversary of my uncle.
    In my culture and religion, food is integral to how the dead are remembered,
    and sharing food they loved can be a very tangible way to feel close to them.
    My grandfather would say, ‘You have to eat a spoonful in his memory’.
    Chhole Kulche was my uncle’s favourite dish and hence to remember him every
    year our family prepares Chhole Kulche for offering in Bangla Sahib
    Gurudwara. The Chhole is prepared without the use of onion and garlic as it
    symbolises a bhog for god and good souls.
    More than a ceremony, it has become a tradition where everyone in the family
    from all the cousins to uncles and aunts come together in Gurudwara distribute
    the food and share happiness, love and laughter.
    Not being there at home this year flooded me with such vivid, emotional
    memories of this day. The taste of Maa ke haath ka khana will always be
    missed, however gourmet meals I may have at Michelin-starred restaurants on
    this day.
    The memory of sitting on the kitchen slabs as a kid and watching her cook
    Chhole in large patilas, adding all her special ingredients of ginger paste with
    tomato puree with lots of green chillies, keeping it on low flame and then
    adding variety of masalas such as coriander powder, garam masala, degi mirch,
    chana masala, anardana powder, finally adding the boiled chickpeas and the
    aroma of boiled tamarind water makes me drool even now.
    A bite of the Kulchas, just the right size and softness, oozing with chhole is
    pure decadence. The flavours burst in the mouth, hot at first, tangy after and by
    the time you've swallowed, your mouth is dripping wet.
    The Chhole Kulche with a glass of ice chilled rose milk will continue to linger
    on my taste buds and fondly remind me of the best days of my life.
    You don't just eat it; it's a wholesome experience, it's more than just my comfort
    food, it’s a feeling of home.

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