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for all these years
i've been like a wife
i've been a mother
i've been a daughter-in-law
i've been a good housekeeper
and this was after getting a degree in
law and practicing for many years
giving it up to raise my children
but after cooking it was like
this is who shalini is and it's now like
shalini the cook shelling who kicks up a
good storm at the dining table
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okay all right so
i'm just checking
when the lockdown happened that's when i
dusted all my recipe books and started
spending time with them and while i was
spending time with them i was cooking a
lot for the family
and the family started enjoying the food
so much
and my husband came up with the idea
that why don't you
share your joy with other people around
you
i've always had a dream of like opening
a cafe in the hills
and the lockdown taught me that it's no
use waiting for something to happen
if you want it to happen go ahead jump
in
and i made a very small little menu sent
it out to friends
and the response was really great that's
how it started and
touchwood has grown a lot
my name is brinali and i've been working
as a graphic designer
this pandemic had taken a u-turn for
many
not just me i was not paid during the
lockdown
so if i didn't had this lockdown
probably i wouldn't have taken out that
chef inside me and gone forward with
this venture
probably i would have never thought
about it
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okay so
she wants to order for her first wedding
anniversary so it's a family get
together
so she is being one of the regular
client sister
this is how it expands and you know you
grow so
i'm very happy with that
homemakers have actually turned into
home chefs
i think their own families are looking
at them with different eyes
and definitely uh giving them more
respect
and realizing that she can do so much
more and also the fact that
she has been doing a lot
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of red pepper rollers
when food is cooked it has that warmth
of a home good
meal and they have you know mended that
gap
of going to the restaurant
change is happening it's all about
taking the small little step
homemakers coming out of the shelves and
once you do it
there is no end to it
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you