The Cloud Kitchen
Preety Lata Biswas was a housewife trained under the supervision of women who were a part of the extended family. They considered it not only their duty but tradition to ensure that every young woman who crossed their threshold as a bride learnt all the necessary culinary skills. It was a rigorous training on par with that of a Cordon Bleu chef. The women were instructed how to peel, chop and cut vegetables followed by gutting and cleaning fish, deveining shrimps and after they had satisfied the piercing gaze of critical elders were they allowed to cook a dish. There were many other skills that they learnt along the way and to be honest not all of them were brilliant but a few of them like Preety Lata surpassed even her teachers. Families had shrunk and the Biswas family and their progeny no longer lived in the same house. Time had also changed the taste buds of her sons and they wanted something new and untried. Preety Lata was now a matron confident and an acknowle...