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I’ve seen in profile post and also heard people saying in many instances “Oh! I missed home so much…I’m dying for mom cooking”…Ya? You’ve said it right, even I do…!!!

Are we then saying that the “always reservation full” restaurant in downtown hot spot with highly qualified chefs is not able to give the same taste spinned by mommy dear from her blackly stained vessels?

By the way, that highly paid and highly qualified chef cooks day in and day out, his fridge or store room is always stacked with all major ingredients you can think of, he is feeding more than hundred tables daily…while mommy dear cooks few dishes and rather supervise the house maid most of the time, she has limited budget and will buy from the local vegetable cart with maximum haggling, she cooks only for the family (Not more than 10 heads…deviations warranted for bigger familyJ)…To top it up, the chefs is paid, in fact highly while mommy is not!!!

Well, I have not done any formal primary nor secondary research to come up with this conclusion. This is more about my general observation and a bit of cognizance and also mainly because I’ve strongly developed this hobby of cooking for quite sometime now and I’ve been doing frequently in my own capacity.

Ok let’s bring some perspective to the comparison…

I’m sure you’ve heard the term “SOUL FOOD”. It dates back to the slavery days in Southern America where African slaves were given only the “leftover” and “undesirable” cuts of meat from their masters (while the white slave owners got the meatiest cuts of ham, roasts, etc).
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