BAHUROOPE GANDHI By ANU BANDYOPADHYAYA............. He could prepare cake, rice, dal, vegetable soup, salads, marmalade both of oranges and orange skins, bread without using yeast or baking powder, chapatis and fine khakras. He introduced loafmaking and biscuit-making in the ashram kitchen. A special type of oven was used in Sevagram for cooking rice for hundreds of persons, for making bread and boiling vegetables at a low cost. One of his associates once remarked: “Lately it was reported that grass had plenty of vitamins. Fortunately the discovery was not made when Gandhiji was in the ashram, for then he would have decided to wind up the kitchen and ask us to graze on the lawn. Gandhi once visited a model residential school. He did not like the kitchen arrangements there and told the teachers: “You will make your institution ideal if besides giving them a literary education, you make finished cooks and sweepers of them.
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