So I woke up today with a certain restlessness. It had been a while since I had written anything. Well, anything that's related to my life. I do express through blogs on a regular basis but they aren't personal.
After reading about travel on twitter links, I started reading about the one thing I love most - food. And on buzzfeed, an article caught my eye - 12 donuts eaten by a man in one day.
Seriously? Which crazy man would want to eat 12 donuts (and travel 13 miles to do that)? But then I realized, food lovers are a crazy lot.
Like the time when I started working, all I did was try rajma chaawal across all places in Delhi for a year. My salary wasn't much and ideally, I should have been saving instead of paying for dishes that I can easily get made at home.
However, I wanted to be a food critic, a la Vir Sanghvi, and know where the best rajma rice is offered in Delhi.
In the first year of my first job, I lost count of how many restaurants I ordered rajma chaawal in. Sometimes, they didn't even have it on the menu and I would sweetly ask the chef to make piping hot rajma rice. I have tasted some amazing dishes as a result of this journey. But there have been instances when the dish was watery, way too heavy, or so spicy that the masalalingered on even after I had downed few glasses of water.
During that year, it's amazing how many people became tired of my obsession. My parents thought I'm crazy (but of course) and others - well, they were surprised my love for one dish didn't fade away.
Now, I have been working for 4 years and guess what? I still eat rajma chaawal when I go out for meals. I don't go out of the way anymore to taste but I do like to re-live the good old days once in a while.
After all, nothing's better than a crazy journey you take alone and smile about for years to come :)
