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DO WE EAT TO LIVE OR LIVE TO EAT?????

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  DO WE EAT TO LIVE OR LIVE TO EAT??? My father- Col Chetan Anand loved food, loved talking about food, its variety , its types, the preparations, the Non veg in particular. The surprising and amusing thing was that while my mother did not eat Non veg, she did not mind cooking for him. So, on a nice and bright Sunday morning , sometimes,   we kids would   see our father ,   go to the market, buy some    onions , garlic, ginger ,tomatoes and coriander ,   along with the non veg from the butchers shop; would lay them on the dining table on arrival at home, with aplomb, and pompously display the wares, of course;   with a twinkle in his eyes that bespoke more than his words, and he anxiously waited for her to cook his mutton Rogan josh / Pasanda for him   which he would thoroughly enjoy,   after,   may be a glass of   chilled beer.     My brothers, too, would accompany him , gorgeing on the tasty and slurpy food. Right through out his living life,   way down towards his   end, he alwa