{"id":103235,"date":"2023-01-14T21:23:32","date_gmt":"2023-01-14T15:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/?p=103235"},"modified":"2023-01-15T09:46:08","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T04:16:08","slug":"is-the-kitchen-the-heart-of-a-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/is-the-kitchen-the-heart-of-a-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the Kitchen the Heart of a Home?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-103236 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/kitchen-heart-of-home-farooqi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/kitchen-heart-of-home-farooqi.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/kitchen-heart-of-home-farooqi-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/kitchen-heart-of-home-farooqi-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/kitchen-heart-of-home-farooqi-525x350.jpg 525w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/>In an age when feminism and female representation are hotly debated, the kitchen, as an expression of femininity, has a lot of significance. At the sixth edition of Kerala Literature Festival, a session was held on the topic `The Paradise of Food` by speakers Khalid Jawed and Baran Farooqi, with Supriya Menon as the moderator. Mita Kapur, the Literary Director for the JCB Prize for Literature, introduced the session.<\/p>\n<p>The Paradise of Food, a unique piece of work, quotes the kitchen as a source of corruption. Khalid Jawed explained how he attempted to show the dark side of the kitchen and to shock the media generation. It is normal for a member of a north Indian Muslim family to have separate food for each individual. He also talked about the story and how he used the names of the foods as a metaphor in the story to make it stand out from others.<\/p>\n<p>Farooqi continued the session by quoting that &#8220;the kitchen is the heart of the house&#8221; and how &#8220;memory&#8221; played an important role in the story. She also said that there is a conflict between modern and traditional kitchens, and as an insider of the culture of traditional Indian kitchens, she could easily understand the inside content of the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an age when feminism and female representation are hotly debated, the kitchen, as an expression of femininity, has a lot of significance. At the sixth edition of Kerala Literature Festival, a session was held on the topic `The Paradise of Food` by speakers Khalid Jawed and Baran Farooqi, with Supriya Menon as the moderator. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":103236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2171],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103235"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103244,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103235\/revisions\/103244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}