'Back to nature'

By S Mukhtar. Dated: 3/26/2017 12:43:05 AM

"Uncle."
"Yes dear."
"Why you hurried out the kitchen…left us all there… feared pressure cooker burst?"
"No dear. The cooker was well steaming out excess pressure."
"But then why left?"
Silence!
"Good Uncle, say please."
"Didn't like odours coming out of the cooker…you see, not good if not bad, discouraging, defeating taste, yes appetite too."
"Uncle, it was cock and spinach, enriched with all spices, garlic, saffron too, yes best available forms of all, being cooked in that thoroughly cleaned cooker. And defeating odours…why, how?"
"Leave it, anyway."
"No Uncle, no. Elaborate, explain, please and please. Great Uncle, I get suspicions about your nose and sense of smell."
"I am all well. Don't worry."
"Uncle, elaborate please. I am pained."
"Dear, take no pain please. Listen, down my long memory lane."
"Yes, Good Uncle, say."
"When I was your age, I and my two cousins would together study in a third storey room of our house…our kitchen lay in the ground floor. Cooking odours…those old kitchens having no individual vapour outlets…would reach us, and ah and aha would spring off our tongues instantly wet with salivary juices reflexively sipped soon down. 'O fish being fried,' 'No, chicken it is,' 'Ay cheese it is' would be our tasty comments but on going down was found a blend of only vegetables in a hotly singing frying pan. Dear, wherefrom those breathtaking odours and flavours and aromas. Any such additives put? No! Yes it all came from the heavenly purity of natural stuffs."
"Uncle, you find a contrast now?"
"Contrasts everywhere. Both our animal and vegetable foods now have lost their old appetising aromas and flavours and tastes. Even the world-famous Kashmiri chef-d'oeuvre now is only a reminiscent of what it over ages down was. Cook an indigenous Kashmiri cock, then a modern poultry cock, and taste the difference. Cook any vegetable, from natural indigenous seed, no fertilisers etc. used, and then the same vegetable, from crossed seed, fertilisers etc. used, and see the difference. Same applies to all fruits, in fact, to all whatever we eat."
"But, Great Uncle, why has all this happened?"
"Dear, causes only two. First: Adulteration; Second: Artificial genetic engineering!"
"Great Uncle, day after day, minister after minister, very loudly declare we shall defeat any war thrust upon us but lo they can't defeat the internally warring adulterators… wonder!"
Silence!
"And, Great Uncle, biological engineers, all thanks to them all for dedicating their life to the service of all humanity, must pay more attention to artificial genetic engineering."
"Scientists have already begun at it…thanks to them all! The Navdanya Movement (India) has lately begun collecting and preserving the seeds of the old plant species brought forth by natural mutations over the millennia, and it is multiplying them in organic farms unimpaired by artificial manures, pesticides, repellents, etc. Yes, Rousseau's 'Back to Nature' it may soon be!"
"Uncle, now I understand why you left the kitchen."

 

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