How I Started My Journey into the Kitchen

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VIRSA: A culinary journey from Agra to Karachi

Published 2021

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Growing up in Karachi, we always had domestic help for household chores. However, there was one thing that Ammi never delegated; that was cooking. Even when we had the large family dinner parties at our home, Ammi would take charge. My sister Rubina, who is a great cook herself now, would always help Ammi in the kitchen. My only job was to set the dinner table. I rarely stepped into the kitchen because:

a) I never had to.

b) I had zero interest in doing so.

Then I got married, and the reality struck. To make matters more real, we moved to Doha just a week after our wedding. I transitioned from being the spoilt, youngest sibling, to being a responsible homemaker, all within a week. I knew this was coming, and I had started preparing for it. A couple of months before the wedding, I started working on a recipe book.