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If everybody is "working" from home then how has TV consumption gone up? Who is making all that gourmet food being posted on social media?

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Vanita Kohli-Khandekar
How on earth are people turning out gourmet meals in the middle of a lockdown?

That is the first question bothering me as we enter the third week of the home incarceration prompted by the spread of the coronavirus globally. Dozens of friends and acquaintances posting yummy food pictures and videos on Twitter, Facebook and WhatsApp is puzzling. Don’t they have to clean the house, mind the children or the elderly and also work from home? And how are they sourcing ingredients beyond the basic vegetables, dal and rice? I enjoy cooking under normal circumstances. But the drudgery of cleaning, swabbing,
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