Dr R Neerunjun Gopee
‘Hey, what will you cook tonight?’
‘I will make dalpitha and a nice satini coco as I will be tired after my long day, and tomorrow make preparations for the Sunday meal for everybody.’
‘Great idea, that’s what I will do too at bonnefemme’s place!’
That was Jenny in Toronto talking (in Creole) to her cousin Linda in Mauritius late last Thursday night (Good Friday morning locally), asking her what she was going to cook for dinner. Linda replied that since it would be rather late when she got back home after work and attending mass, she would make a simple dish, namely dalpitha and a nice coconut chutney to go with it, since all her children would be coming. But on Saturday she would get everything ready for their traditional Easter meal on Sunday with all the family. Jenny exclaimed that that was a super idea. She too would make dalpitha at her mother’s place where lived her brother and his family too. Linda’s daughter who had gone to Toronto about two years earlier resided in the same house with her husband and their three children. Jenny’s mother, Louisa, was Linda’s elder cousin who had emigrated to Canada over three decades ago.
I have known the family for a long time – in fact well before several years ago when Louisa, then seventy plus, on a visit back home sustained a fracture of the ankle and I had to operate on her. When the children had their first communion I was always assured of my share of brioche. This is just one example of the exchanges that we have shared over the years on any number of occasions with them, and with my other non-Hindu friends during Divali or Kung Shee Fat Choy. * Read More… Become a Subscriber
Mauritius Times ePaper Friday 22 April 2022
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