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Wambatu Moju and creativity

A few days back someone mentioned the dish Wambatu Moju on Twitter. And it led to me googling about this brinjal based Sri Lankan dish. I was sufficiently inspired to try it out, bored as we were with our regular cooking repetoire. The ingredients were there, the enthusiasm was there and it was sufficiently out of the comfort zone from a taste lens (vinegar + mustard) and it was acted upon. The end result was a "meets expectations" but nobody knows what a good Wambatu Moju tasted like (in the family I mean). Why this story? This is a typical approach of how I work. I find something. Get inspired. Try it out. Some of them are easy like Wambatu Moju. Some of them are difficult and never see light of day like the Great Leadership Digital Simulation. Some of them are in between, sufficiently inspiring upto a point of trial and error. This is creativity for me. Constantly exploring an area just outside comfort zones. Pushing boundaries physically (till the knees give up...

Learning new things - gastronomy edition

Being in Learning and Development has its side benefits. Recently attended a kitchen meeting in preparation for an assignment. And it turned out to be a education for me....about the world of gastronomy. Well no, it was like someone opened a door into a library room into the size of a stadium and closed it fast before I could read a page... Here is a sample... Jambalaya versus Gumbo - which is what? Not that I particularly know or can recognize one from the other, but one is a rice dish and one is a stew. What is Sambal ? I learnt this word as well :) I thought it had an Indian origin, but similar to Jambalaya I was wrong. How about Gallo pinto? Surely Goan? Naah, see for yourself . And apparently all this can be easily found in the worlds greatest culinary book - Larousse Gastronomy .