WEDNESDAY 16 JUNE 2021 From Conflict to Coexistence SEE ON PAGE 4 TV at its Blindsiding Best SEE ON PAGE 3 This is Going Channel the to Upset Some of You BY AUNTY D CEYLON TODAY FEATURES Have you ever stood in a room and had to explain why your dad’s name is saved Cake-Doctress as his name and not dad, or why you don’t BY PRIYANGWADA PERERA really talk much to your parents or why CEYLON TODAY FEATURES your relationship with them is strained. Or any of the other million things people “Amma, you don’t need to make my birthday ask you when you make any sort of cake this year. We are having a tough time inclination that you just don’t like your looking after grandma. There is no point spending parents. all that time and energy making the cake. Let us buy,” I tell my mother. “Oh no, no way. How can I And why is that? skip making your birthday cake? I have done so I suppose we are to be grateful to them for all these years. Plus, who wants to cut a shop- for giving us life, and in some occasions bought cake for a birthday?” she replies, giving us an education and a place to live devastated. That is how it is, with traditional and keeping us alive for as long as they mothers. For them, cooking or baking is all about did. But hear me out; as much as we need love. Even with the money to spend, even if they to be grateful for that, we also need to know the best place to buy a cake, it hurts their understand that it is what they signed up pride. The thought does not agree with their for. image of motherhood. None of us were pressuring our parents Vidushi Gunasekara is someone who knows to give birth to us from the ‘great beyond’ this very well. With a mother who excels in or wherever you believe you are from, it cookery, Vidushi herself is a lover of baking and was a conscious (hopefully) decision made cooking. But she will tell you how lazy she is to conceive a child and to give the child a when it comes to weighing and measuring basic upbringing and a good life. Every and the calculations. “I am too lazy to child is born deserving of this; let’s get do the math,” Vidushi laughed that clear. out loud. Whether you credit Bill Gates or Why would a child dislike Frank B. their parents? Gliberth Snr, the Well, in my experience the only people I statement ,“I know who stay away from their parents will always have reason to. Some parents do choose a lazy difference in her cakes is that unspeakable things to their children and person to do a they are super moist. then sweep it under the carpet or don’t difficult job because “Someone seeing me pouring acknowledge the damage that has done. a lazy person will the batter would question They refuse to talk about it and society find an easy way to do whether the final cake would and the pressure put on children to it,” the same worked for ever be possible to be cut ‘always respect their parents no matter Vidushi. To make it with a knife. Of course, the what’ leaves children who went through easier for many of us who cakes with a glaze you have absolute abuse in the hands of their want to get the hard part to eat with a spoon,” the Cake parents having to ‘show respect’ to them. done, and make the cake Doctress explained. The best Why should you keep your ourselves, she now provides part is that all these cakes can the magic – the cake be made in mere 5 minutes, mouth shut? ingredients. without the baking time. You need It was her sister’s aunt-in-law just one bowl. On her Facebook Besides the obvious reason that you who gave her a book on cake Page, as the Cake Doctress, she shouldn’t force your opinions on others, recipes long ago. There, Vidushi explains everything in detail. The videos there’s also the fact that some people have discovers that the secret is in the of herself making the very cake are freely been through things because of their cake mix. “Whatever the cake is, there is a base. available. No secrets not mysteries. Vidushi is parents that they can’t really talk openly It is either white cake mix for vanilla, devil’s food not the kind of chef who would want you to mess about. We unfortunately live in a world mix for chocolate cake. White cake mix has no up the process. She takes great delight in where parents physically, emotionally and egg yolk and the yellow cake mix is with egg yolk. making others happy. sexually abuse their own children. The Every recipe book has these bases. Every cake in A lot of great chefs who cook commercially statistics are crazy and most of these the book more or less depends on these three hardly have time to be cooking for their loved things go unreported, especially in the cake bases. What I have done is, for each base I ones. She does not fall into this trap. Vidushi is ‘middle class’; the chances of us moving provide five recipes of cakes you can make.” the aunt to call a nephew and ask what kind of a with people who have been through But if you think you are going to get the cake he would like on a random day, because she similar experiences are really high. ingredients of just a normal butter cake or a missed his birthday. When the kid says he wants So just because you strongly believe that chocolate cake, you are mistaken. Her cakes are a pink heart shaped cake that tastes like ‘disrespecting or disconnecting’ from your exotic. There is a Jelly Cake made with simple strawberry, this aunt goes in search of such a parents is a sin or unethical, in some ingredients. You would be amazed at what three cake tray. Instead of just putting on some instances it may be absolutely necessary eggs, oil or margarine and a cup of curdled flavours, she buys the best strawberries, comes for a person’s emotional well-being. buttermilk can do. The specialty of Vidushi’s cake home to make the strawberry puree and makes Moving forward mixes is that you need not make the same old the biggest, strawberry cake in the shape of a cake repeatedly, even if you become a fan of it. heart, all for her nephew. She is one of those rare I think society should come to a place of Monotony is not Vidushi’s way and that is why human beings who spread love and cheer. If you being willing to see things for what they for each base, you also get five different recipes are struggling taking care of a sick family really are. The current generation is finally Vidushi is the Cake Doctress on Facebook. member and having a tough time, you might get a starting to put an end to the redundant Creativity is her plus point and her imagination, call from Vidushi. She would inform you that she system of respecting undeserving people endless. Experimenting is something Vidushi is Vidushi Gunasekara is going to drop in for 10 minutes and when she simply because they are older than us. always ready for. She is known for her love of does, she has a unique home-made cake for you. And no, the opposite of respect shouldn’t cooking mostly because she is one who makes all time to do all this. That is because cooking is That is why Cake Doctress is such an apt name be disrespect in this instance but the kinds of dishes and cakes and feeds her family something she is passionate about. for her. She also delivers her cake mixes and the ability to politely avoid people and and friends. In spite of being a teacher of English According to Vidushi, all the cakes in the credit is all yours when you make the cake situations that disturb a person’s inner and Science, teacher and examiner of Speech and stores are with a 520g base. It is with this base yourself. Cake Doctress is definitely your butter- peace; whatever or whoever that may be. Drama and an IELTS coach, she still finds her that one experiments with. The biggest half, alive and caking. Just think about it. C2 WEDNESDAY 16 JUNE 2021 SNEAK PEEKS LOOK But First… Harrison Spotted! Grab your cosmos. And Just Like That, the new Sex and the City series, kicked off production. But first, Sarah Jessica Parker paid a visit to Carrie Bradshaw’s famous apartment. “Pure coincidence AND JUST LIKE THAT, we find ourselves on this street called Perry the night before it all begins again,” the actress, 56, wrote via Instagram. “MPK, here we go. And I’m thrilled and terrified. X, SJ.” Harrison Ford has been pictured The yet-to-be titled film is also set to Kristin Davis, who is set to filming close to the Scottish border as star former Bond villain Mads reprise her role as Charlotte York he reprises his role as Indiana Jones. Mikkelsen and Fleabag’s Phoebe Waller in the new show, commented on Ford, 78, will play the famous Bridge.