‘I never felt like I had any control over the food’: An interview with the chef who’s revolutionised Indian cuisine
On a hot day, she’d prepare an Indian meal with ingredients sourced from the region’s most famous eatery, Bhuvan’s.
Then, she would pack it up and drive home.
But in an interview with CBC News, she revealed the difficulties that came with working in a kitchen, and how she has had to learn how to adapt to the changing world of Indian food.
“I never thought about this food as a meal,” says the chef, who has been with the company for two decades.
“I thought, this is what I eat and I’m going to eat it all day.
This is what food is.
This is what cooking is.”
It’s a question that has divided her team, as she tries to explain to them that she’s never felt empowered to take control of her cooking, and instead has to be a partner in the process.
I think I’m a little bit of a dilettante.
But I have a vision.
For example, when I first started, I didn’t really know how to cook.
I was really young, and I just wanted to make something, I just didn’t know what to do with myself.
I didn�t know how I wanted to live my life, and my cooking was the first thing I was learning.
It was so much fun, because it was just me, just me.
I think that’s why it was so easy.
But now, when you start making dishes, you don’t know how the food should be.
You can do it but you don�t have a plan.
And you have to make your own decisions.
So I have to figure out how I want to cook and how I can be a part of that.
And I have so many questions.
How can I make something really special and be my own boss?
How do I cook better?
I don�ts know, and that’s the big thing that I have.
I have no idea what to cook, I have zero control.
I just do what I do.
And I have this really, really good idea.
How do I do that?
The kitchen is not a magic wand.
She says she’s always been a self-starter, so that’s always in the back of her mind.
“You learn to say no, no, and no.
And then you have a lot of time and space.
And when you have time and time and you say no again, you start to build that self-confidence and confidence.
And that is what you have with the kitchen.
You build that.
And it takes a long time.
And so you get better, and you get more and more comfortable.
It takes time.
But you learn, you learn and you build.”
I can’t believe I am doing it.
I love it.
Her first job, she says, was at the age of 16, working in an auto assembly plant.
It wasn’t the most glamorous job.
She was a teenager and had a lot to learn, and she was learning to make the things she loved.
She says she didn’t get a lot done at the plant.
But she did a lot for the workers there, and eventually moved on to the city.
She started as a chef, then a dishwasher, then later, as a housewife.
She’s also the co-owner of Bhuvanes Bistro, a restaurant in Toronto.
And she’s not shy about her passion for cooking.
When I started cooking, I did not know what I wanted out of life.
And now I think about the way I want food to taste.
So when I have an idea, I cook it.
And my ideas come from my heart.
I am not an expert.
I know the ingredients, but I don’t have the skills.
I’m not a chef.
I like the process, and the challenge.
Do I make it the best I can?
I have tried, I think I do make it as good as I can.
But it depends on the person.
It depends on who I am.
And for me, it was always about the people.
When I’m cooking for the people, it’s very different from when I’m making the food.
The people who are eating it for themselves, it doesn’t matter to me.
If I’m in a restaurant, I want it to be good.
It has to taste good.
I want people to enjoy the food, and they’re happy with it.
So if I cook for myself, I’m happy.
And if I’m working with a family, I don?t want to be in a situation where people are unhappy because the food isn?t as good, I?m not happy with that.
So my approach to cooking is very different. It