Food catering: enjoy the benefits!

What food culture do you adopt at home is not the question. Traditional food from any cuisine scores better than any other as what matters is just not the taste it is something that might include the taste of yesteryears. Grandmother’s love, the crisp spices rich food that you and other members of your family used to admire and were die-hard fans of. My friend at Singapore took me to his home, his paradise while we were staying in the foreign country. It was a question well placed whether we would like to go for a full-course buffet, a tea party at home, or a lavish cocktail, as it was no occasion meant for celebration in particular. Then, as it was soon decided, we all chose to have a buffet. As we had the main course, bite after bite, we had the sultry, tangy tastes coming straight from the traditionally ultra fantastic cuisine.

Bon Apetitos! This was what we yelled after having a good dose of fun food. The quality of the food that Mrs.Shukama, his mother served was simple superb! Then she disclosed that she was in the food catering business as well. What she served was eatables with proper recipes that were popular among people, perfect blend of spices with gravy in hygienic proportions. Whether from the East or the West, people vouched for popularly known as ‘Grandma’ Shukama’s culinary delight. No doubt, the food catering service was marvelous. Conjuring the delicious dishes from her household premises to schools, universities, even to wedding sometimes, required special skills. Where had she imbibed those specialties was a query that we all had from her. She replied, “Traditions from home” had taught her everything.

The freshness of home-made appetizing foods cannot come from the hands of even the quickest of the chef at the hotel. Hygiene remains an issue that keeps everyone in quest. Then whether the dish would pass the ‘to be or not to be’ criteria is another very important one to be answered. Soon many of our friends joined me to come up to a unanimous judgment. We would be opting for catering service from this lady. My friend hesitated, he did not even agree for a reasonable amount. But when all of us agreed, he answered with a clear-cut notion that we would keep partying at his home whenever we would feel like. He also said that apart from expressing our desire to have something special that we liked, we would never step into an eatery, big or small. We cheerfully agreed!

No doubt, the traditional food was tasty and we frequented my friend’s house quite often after that, what I still wonder is that our lady who made these dishes for us seemed agelessly young, her cooking ability made us feel so! It was like quite a contrast with her appearance which was certainly not that of a young cook, it was that of mother, who might be unaware of what the youth of today liked. It was the food that she put all her energy in. And it showed till the last bite that we had at that heavenly abode.