Pancakes… Or the Indian Marriage Contract

“To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.”
— François de La Rochefoucauld

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A few months ago I was in Cape Town with a Slovenian girl I adored, and we were talking about old relationships over sushi. The one she missed the most, she confided, had been more of a mutual boredom arrangement. He was fresh out of a relationship, and she was looking for…