surat with the age fast turning into a service providers platform the sweetness of home style chikki in uttarayan too gets delivered to households but from another kitchen with covid snatching even private space through work from home schedules its a tightrope walk trying to balance work home and celebrationstherefore the traditional recipes of gud jaggery till sesame seeds and the ultimate crunchy delight of chikki has mostly fallen out of flavour among homemakers especially the younger generation and so who steps in to help a pune vendor who delivers homemade chikki from his kitchen with customers own ingredients from seeds and nuts to puff rice this service has become a blessing for working women like dr shefali radadiya being a doctor it is difficult for me to spare time to make the traditional chikki sweets and this service has been god sent she saidwe charge customers nominal labour charges for making the chikki customers bring their own ingredients and we add ours to make it taste better vendor manoj patel in varachha told toiforam dhawal pahadiawala a fashion designer by profession who wants to add a homely touch to festivities amid the fast life said that the vendor service has been adding sweetness to her celebrations with homemade items