tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5671536805876663540.post2533314588768705872..comments2023-10-31T20:33:26.817+05:30Comments on Past Continuous: COAL-CALLINGSucharita Sarkarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07802171314546508539noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5671536805876663540.post-48512150490410435622008-08-07T02:51:00.000+05:302008-08-07T02:51:00.000+05:30Thanks, everybody, for the trip back in time to sh...Thanks, everybody, for the trip back in time to share the smells and tastes of the coal-stove.Sucharita Sarkarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07802171314546508539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5671536805876663540.post-77215962419530210662008-08-04T00:15:00.000+05:302008-08-04T00:15:00.000+05:30The SMELL of the smoke, ma'm. This should so have ...The SMELL of the smoke, ma'm. This should so have been part of your "Nose-talgia". That smell still brings back the mornings so vividly.<BR/><BR/>J.A.P.J. Alfred Prufrockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16446127543417759542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5671536805876663540.post-25466572288812128512008-08-03T06:25:00.000+05:302008-08-03T06:25:00.000+05:30Your posts are always so nostalgic and tack us bac...Your posts are always so nostalgic and tack us back to the golden moments in time...its really wonderful reminiscing the days when life was far more simple...today we may live in a fast world and technology is claiming to make everything easier but the truth is actually somehow they have become more complex & we still love going back to our good old past days....we also experienced the same thing as you have narrated in the entire post till the electric ovens and gas heaters took over a decade back....lovely reading & wonderfully written post!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5671536805876663540.post-994494975852015232008-08-03T00:28:00.000+05:302008-08-03T00:28:00.000+05:30Kerosene Stove was in my home but in my mother's i...Kerosene Stove was in my home but in my mother's in-laws house I have seen Chulha light up with wooden pieces and folded papers and then same yours story continues...<BR/>But you know wood chulha food is always better than this gas/stove.<BR/>The taste is different...<BR/>Too good...<BR/>Sometimes I dream of visiting village and staying there for 3-4 days or more and having chulha ka food...yummy !Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5671536805876663540.post-56305896189461911502008-07-30T08:54:00.000+05:302008-07-30T08:54:00.000+05:30Sucharita, we did one more thing as children. Bunc...Sucharita, we did one more thing as children. Bunch of potatoes were chucked in through the chulha door below, to bake on the side while Bhakris and stuff were made on the tawa on the chulha. I can still smell the coal baked potato and remeber its wonderful taste after we peeled off the darkened skin (which was almost cinder black). Abs wonderful. And thanks so much for bringing this up.Ugich Konitarihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15901335427613806798noreply@blogger.com