The article highlights reader accounts of treasured kitchen heirlooms that embody memories and cultural connections. Priya Deshingkar shares her story about a handmade copper pot from her grandmother, reflecting on its history and her grandmother's life in 1920s India. Cooking with this pot connects her to familial traditions and evokes memories of her grandmother's struggles and love for literature. The narrative explores the decline of traditional kitchen practices, such as re-tinning copper pots, in contemporary culinary culture.
Cooking with it reminds me of her and the life she lived. Despite coming from a well-to-do family, she was married at 14 and spent the best part of her youth toiling away and bringing up five children.
I use it for a typically Maharashtrian dish my grandmother used to make called bharli vangi aubergines stuffed with a mixture of spices and ground roasted peanuts.
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