When the world has its way with you, you reconsider your position on delayed gratification As a very young woman, our Beena aunty was always trying out new recipes for parties and Sunday lunches at home in Bengaluru.
At a couple of parties in a row, she was annoyed to see that her guests had largely neglected her gorgeous three-tier desserts.
More for us, thought my cousins and I, but she was determined to find out why. As it turned out, several of her friends—from different parts of Karnataka—said they were more used to eating sweets first thing in a meal, not at the end.
All of us children were like, “how awesome and sensible!" The order of appearance of mithai is a matter of convention. But what about the order of appearance of fun?