Community that eats together, stays together! Meet the Bohri kitchen folks who perpetuate this!

Community that eats together, stays together!  Meet the Bohri kitchen folks who perpetuate this!

Elsie Gabriel

It’s hard for me to forget about the Bohri lunch that I had last week at The Bohri Kitchen in Colaba,Mumbai. Tucked away in a classic old fashioned building is a Borhi household ,Father, Mother and son trio which serve up the most delicious home food Bohri style.

I happily returned to my many childhood memories about eating together, when I saw the gathering who collect every weekend , which is only by invitation.

If you agree that it’s more fun to combine eating with meeting interesting people, then The Bohri kitchen is the perfect place for you.  The whole gourmet experience is about social dining. The main aim is to bring people together who might not have known each other previously, and it is all served up in a beautiful home.

Each dish is well explained even before it makes a grand entry, mouth already watering, the ingredients, style of eating it, the vessels used and also what has gone into its preparation is systematically well outlined, enough to make you salivate. Munaf  Kapadia , the brain and modern conceptualizer of the age old home community eating mastermind, of the TBK says, “This is an experimental lunch concept where we invite friends or friends of friends, to our home for a mouthwatering 5-6 course Bohri meal. Unfortunately since TBK is held at our residence we are sticklers about who we invite. If you have a mutual friend or are the prime minister of a country, it helps.”

There is so much tradition and love that goes into the food ,its amazing how the mother aka Home Chef  Nafisa Kapadia does it all, she is the entrepreneural chef who uses her years of cooking skills to conceptualize the menu and create the final gastronmoic masterpieces which are served to guests. She is TBKs backbone.

I came away satisfied and well fed, enough to boast that this Bohri clan does everything to enhance the home dining tradition. Eating meals together regularly provides more than good nutrition; it enables family members and friends to share their days with each other, relax, laugh, discuss social issues, make new friends and strengthen old relationships.

 

Come on, when was the last time you ate a meal without your laptop, or the mobile or TV running simultaneously? Stop, think, go and enjoy the Bohri kitchen experience. Feel the environment which fosters conversation during meals, the old fashioned way, giving reverence to each ingredient and natures bounty for sure.

Of course home cooked meals are healthier. Catch up on your communication skills, listen patiently and learn to expressing one’s opinion in a respectful manner. Stop eating hastily with food in your mouth, ready to rush out for another errand or job schedule. And if you must know, Eating together helps younger members appreciate family tradition. Food served at the family table helps to shape and give lasting meaning to our cultural heritage.

See, here at the Bohri kitchen each member of the family is involved in the meal preparation. Watching Mrs Kapadia’s face, at the end of the luncheon was so blissful, to see her watch everyone else enjoy her meal and leave with so much gratitude. Teach by example, they say. Well, she does it all through the Bohri kitchen table.

 

Of course the menu and dishes offered you will easily find on the webpage and through my pictures but what you will not find is the essence which I captured, that is a family which eats together, stays together! Food needs to be valued. Nature’s offerings needs its status back.Go find out through the Bohri kitchen journey, for your self!

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