114: Hetal Vasavada on Desi Bakes

Everything Cookbooks

Kate and Molly speak with blogger, writer and MasterChef alum Hetal Vasavada about her atypical career journey. She shares stories and lessons learned from her time on the tv show, how she got around the limits of her contract after it aired and why it was important to foster a community. Hetal talks about the differences between book one and book two, the advice she got during recipe development and how she learned food photography skills to shoot her own books before diving into the design process. She discusses working with the designer, choosing a title, her unique brand of flavor combinations that yields dishes that have minimal effort but maximum payoff and leaves us with a few of her ideas for book number three.

Hosts: Kate Leahy + Molly Stevens + Kristin Donnelly + Andrea Nguyen

Editor: Abby Cerquitella

Hetal Vasavada

• Website
• Instagram

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Visit the Everything Cookbooks Bookshop to purchase a copy of the books mentioned in the show

• Desi Bakes by Hetal Vasavada
• Milk & Cardamom by Hetal Vasavada