Say cheese
It was through some error in communication that my husband and I found ourselves attending a workshop on making cheese the natural way. Cheese not being one of my favourite foods, my eyes began to droop the minute the talk started.
I did, however, gather some vital information. Natural cheese and processed cheese are not the same, and unlike processed cheese, natural cheese does not have a set formula. There is a recipe and a procedure but not a formula.
Which is why, processed cheese of a particular brand would taste the same today as it did ‘n’ many years ago and would retain its taste maybe ‘n’ years from now.
Luckily, the talk wound up in about 40 minutes, and the participants were invited to partake of samples of various cheese made the natural way. I, of course, was a passive participant, tasting not the cheese but the reactions of the tasters. I observed that except for two or three of the two dozen or so people gathered, no one else seemed to be enjoying the cheeses.
So, why was it that natural cheese, in spite of its goodness over its processed counterpart, failed to make an impact?
Be it cheese or life, we are so used to the artificial, to specific formulas, that we are unable to accept anything different even though it may be a better option.
Could it be that the formulas we have for a happy life are just that? Formulas and not the real thing? And we accept them because they are so widely available that all we have to do is to just add them to our shopping cart?
Processed cheese is definitely easy life but happiness lies in taking that extra effort to go to a cheese shop just to buy cheese.
Vidya Shankar
Published in The Gulf Today / Short Take, dt Dec 22, 2018)
http://gulftoday.ae/portal/18559659-096d-4555-b9f6-a542e1103046.aspx
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Click the link below to watch a 30-second promo video.
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I did, however, gather some vital information. Natural cheese and processed cheese are not the same, and unlike processed cheese, natural cheese does not have a set formula. There is a recipe and a procedure but not a formula.
Which is why, processed cheese of a particular brand would taste the same today as it did ‘n’ many years ago and would retain its taste maybe ‘n’ years from now.
Luckily, the talk wound up in about 40 minutes, and the participants were invited to partake of samples of various cheese made the natural way. I, of course, was a passive participant, tasting not the cheese but the reactions of the tasters. I observed that except for two or three of the two dozen or so people gathered, no one else seemed to be enjoying the cheeses.
So, why was it that natural cheese, in spite of its goodness over its processed counterpart, failed to make an impact?
Be it cheese or life, we are so used to the artificial, to specific formulas, that we are unable to accept anything different even though it may be a better option.
Could it be that the formulas we have for a happy life are just that? Formulas and not the real thing? And we accept them because they are so widely available that all we have to do is to just add them to our shopping cart?
Processed cheese is definitely easy life but happiness lies in taking that extra effort to go to a cheese shop just to buy cheese.
Vidya Shankar
Published in The Gulf Today / Short Take, dt Dec 22, 2018)
http://gulftoday.ae/portal/18559659-096d-4555-b9f6-a542e1103046.aspx
#TheQuintessentialWord #FlautistofBrindaranyam #
Here's my first book! An ensemble of poetry and photographs.
Click the link below to watch a 30-second promo video.
https://youtu.be/5BhbjMaIwpk
You can buy it at this link:
https://notionpress.com/read/the-flautist-of-brindaranyamwww.facebook.com
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