On Cooking Poem by Indira Renganathan

To brew is to welcome Aurora
Who sets in to bless us prime
Coffee, tea all first global law

Battered are idli, dosa, vada, chutney
Mouth to stomach breaking the fast
For a choice light, just pongal simply

To lunch means a midday meal
Sweet and sour all curries to savor
Of course with rice, the main of the meal

Tea time is cracking snack time
Frying is strenuous albeit eating is easy
Need a choice lighter, tea alone is sublime

Boiling, baking, broiling, brewing, blending
Chopping, grilling, grinding, pressured
A day's roasted, toasted journey is cooking

Free time means vegetable-grocery-buying
Selecting, bargaining should be for select quality
With leftover recipes anew the dinner-cooking

Cooking over, eating over- cleaning starts
Machine or maid-pain in the neck often
Patience punctured by irate sleepy syllables

Cooking is a day long journey strenuous
Stuck, cooked by smoky kitchen sweating
No way to skip as hunger recurs in cycles