French chefs make ‘Ghar ka Khana’ during coronavirus-induced lockdown

Cordon Bleu recipes with which to beat lockdown blues.

By ET Bureau | Mar 31, 2020, 08.16 AM IST

Displaying what some would describe as a national preoccupation with all things culinary, Napoleon remarked that an army marches on its stomach. Had the Little Corporal, who himself thrived on only one meal a day, been around now, he might have observed that the organ in question plays a key role in boosting the morale of defence personnel and civilians when they are confined to barracks during a coronavirus-induced lockdown.

While a bemused Charles de Gaulle was heard to wonder as to how one could administer a nation with some 248 varieties of cheese, the French amour aristology is helping many cope with the constraints of isolation.

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Celebrity chefs are appearing on television and on social media networks demonstrating how the Gallic equivalent of ‘ghar ka khana’ can be turned into gourmet gastronomy in one’s own home.

In a video recording showing the preparation of an asparagus dish, a Parisian master chef says, “There are no tricks. I have a tiny kitchen, if I can do it, so can you.” Such creative cook-ins should provide not only chicken soup for the soul but also coq au vin for beleaguered spirits, ensuring that locked-down people can get meals that are not just hot but haute, and share the sentiment of the replete philosopher by affirming, “Serenely full, the epicure would say,/ Fate cannot harm me,/ I have dined today.”

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