The neuro biologist who is on a mission to make chefs out of the differently abled. #FoodocracyForher

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Jerry Seinfeld jokes about the phrase "it is what it is' in his Netflix special, "23 Hours To Kill".

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Find purpose and work will follow, they say. Dr Tatyana Dias, whom I interviewed for the latest episode of the #foodocracyforher podcast, is a great example of this. Her sister, Veruschka, was born when Tatyana was 4. 4 years later the doctors diagnosed Veruschka as being autistic. From then on the lives of young Tatyana and her parents revolved around Veruschka's well being. Tatyana felt very protective towards her sister. When in high school she decided that she wanted to study and know more about how the brain works so that she could make a difference to the lives of those who were like her sister. This led her to going to Cambridge to study neuro biology and she did her Phd on the same. Veruschka unfortunately passed away a few years back. Tatyana then decided put her scientific work on hold and opened the Veruschka Foundation, to empower the differently abled, in memory of her sister. She started the Culinaris Cookery Institute to impart culinary vocational training to her 'bacchus' (children) as she lovingly calls them. Folks who biologically adults. but mentally children. Then, realising the difficulty in placing girls with autism in mainstream kitchens, she opened A Bite Better, a sustainable food retail offering, where she could employ her female students. This episode is longer than others in the series, but do tune in to listen to Tatyana first lovingly reminisce about life with Veruschka whereby she helps understand what autism is, and then the various steps she has taken so far in memory of her sister. It is bound to leave you inspired! #FoodocracyForHer by Kalyan Karmakar is India's longest running podcast featuring women entrepreneurs in the food and beverage business. Please share the episode. Please click on like as it helps the video be discovered and please do subscribe to the channel to catch future episodes of the podcast.

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I want to take Malvani food from my kitchen to the world: Pallavi Amberkar of Flavours of malvan 43:39

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Pallavi Amberkar is a Mumbai girl whose roots lie in Malvan in coastal Maharashtra. She opted out of working when her son was born, but her desire to work was always there. She came across the concept of home cook organised home dining experiences through Authenticook, tried it out, and loved the experience. She cooked Malvani food as it was cooked in her home, and the audience lapped up her food. She planned to cater to party orders after that but saw that most were going in for small orders. This was not her plan, but she did not back out. Then came the COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown, and she began to retail home-cooked Malvani meals under the brand name Flavours of Malvan. She would go to the markets to pick up fresh seafood and meat, and her food became a hit, as seen in repeat purchases and word-of-mouth recommendations. The lockdown ended, and the market opened up. People wanted to go out and eat, but the competition for ordering in increased. Home chefs had a tough time holding on, and only the very best and most determined continued. Both applied to Pallavi, who looked at options beyond her regular weekly menus. She tried looking for large catering orders and launched a biryani brand. She considered opening a restaurant and has gone back to her roots by launching home dining more formally. It took me 4 years to convince the rather reticent Pallavi to participate in the podcast. Still, as she says, her confidence has increased over the years, and she now understands the need to push her business more aggressively. Listen to Pallavi Amberkar on this episode of #foodocracy to learn about her inspiring story. Pallavi is based in Mumbai. For orders and to be added to her WhatsApp group, you can message her at +91 9819703070. The award-winning #podcast #FoodocracyForHer by Kalyan Karmakar is India's longest-running podcast featuring women entrepreneurs in the food and beverage business. This is the third season. Please share the episode. Please click on like as it helps the video be discovered, and please subscribe to the channel to catch future episodes of the podcast.…

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Running a restaurant means making a fresh start every day: Jasleen Marwah, Folk restaurant. 54:06

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Jasleen Marwah is a media professional turned home chef who launched her Kashmiri food offering, Namak, during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Namak exists primarily as a catering offer now. Something new has happened in Jasleen's life. She is now the co-owner cum chef of a restaurant called Folk in Mumbai's art district of Kalaghoda. Folk offers pan Indian food and not just Kashmiri food. In her second appearance in Foodocracy For Her, Jasleen speaks to us about her new endeavour. The award-winning #podcast #FoodocracyForHer by Kalyan Karmakar is India's longest-running podcast featuring women entrepreneurs in the food and beverage business. Please share the episode. Please click on like as it helps the video be discovered and please do subscribe to the channel to catch future episodes of the podcast.…

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The homechef who used lessons on marketing from her corporate job to grow her business: Ushri Guruji 45:18

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Ushri Guruji's love for cooking started at the age of 10. She lived in Kolkata then. Her inspiration was chef Sanjeev Kapoor's show Khana Khazana. She moved to Mumbai, married into a Bohri family, and has been in the corporate world for 17 years. Her love for feeding people inspired her to start her home chef business, Ushri HomeChef, 4 years back during the Covid 19 lockdown. She offers both Bengali and Bohri food. She did not slow down after the lockdown ended. She treats her home chef business with utmost seriousness and juggles it with her day job in the corporate sector. She does weekly menus and organises innovative food cum culture pop-ups. Do listen to her as she shares her learnings about running a home chef business, the role that long-term vision and patience play and the need to be adept at marketing and seeking help when required. You can get in touch with her on Instagram or Facebook on her page @ushrihomechef or call her on 9967468014/ 7506650961 The award-winning #podcast #FoodocracyForHer by Kalyan Karmakar is India's longest-running podcast featuring women entrepreneurs in the food and beverage business. This is the third season. Please share the episode. Please click on like as it helps the video be discovered and please do subscribe to the channel to catch future episodes of the podcast.…

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Karen Anand, the OG food influencer 59:30

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She was referred to as the 'salad queen' before salads became a thing.She hosted a food and travel show before they food and travel shows became a thinfg.She came up with a farmer's market before farmers became a thing.Watch Karen Anand in this episode of #foodocracyforher to find out what drives this force of nature.…

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Makhanas are not lotus seeds: Darbhanga's Makhana Girl Pratibha Bondia Kheria on Foodocracy For her 1:03:51

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Makhanas are trending in the Indian dietary world these days but do you know what they are? How they are grown? How they are processed? If not, then this podcast episode featuring Pratibha Bondia Kheria of Pearl Mithila Makhana...and organic and ethically driven enterprise...will give you the answers that you are looking for. Along with the inspiring story of this socially conscious entrepreneur. The award winning #podcast #FoodocracyForHer by Kalyan Karmakar is India's longest running podcast featuring women entrepreneurs in the food and beverage business. Please share the episode. Please click on like as it helps the video be discovered and please do subscribe to the channel to catch future episodes of the podcast.…

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Bio-tech to Banana chips. Two sisters from Kerala who are empowering home based food entrepreneurs through tech 57:19

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Reshma and Annu are two sisters who grew up in a small town near Kochi in Kerala. Reshma went to Mumbai for her studies and to work. Annu went to Chennai to study and now works out of Bangalore. The two sisters are part of India's tech boom, having worked in the intersection of bio-tech and radiology and in AI. The lockdown and going back home and seeing the power of the cooking of their amma and amma chechi (maternal aunt) and their ambitions (the two matrons reached the semifinals of a cooking competition aired on TV), they felt the need to create a platform for such unspoken stars of Indian kitchens. Out of this came the inspiration to start Meengurry Memories, with their mum's banana chips as the first product. The brand and their vision has grown since then and they have now come up with TOCCO, a digital market place who want to create food products (not fresh meals). Annu is a sounding board and has a day job. Watch the episode to know more of this amazing story. The award winning #podcast #FoodocracyForHer by Kalyan Karmakar is India's longest running podcast featuring women entrepreneurs in the food and beverage business. Please share the episode. Please click on like as it helps the video be discovered and please do subscribe to the channel to catch future episodes of the podcast.…

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Most chefs don't give eggs the importance they deserve: Annie Bafna of The Nutcracker Mumbai on Foodocracy For Her 1:07:51

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Annie Bafna is a CA as many of her fellow Parsis are. What makes her rare in the community is that she is a vegetarian! She used to eat eggs once but has given that up apart from when she needs to do tastings at The Nutcracker Mumbai which has an egg-etarian menu. Like any good Parsi, Annie reveres eggs. This ensures that the scrambled eggs coming out of her kitchen are consistently creamy and dreamy. Annie is not a chef. She worked for 7 years in the finance industry and then 7 years in the design industry before she followed her longstanding dream of being in the food business by opening the first Nutcracker outlet in Mumbai's art district, Kalaghoda. This was 8 years back in October 2014. Since then she has opened 3 more outlets in Bandra West, Palladium and Jio World Drive with a menu that has much more than scrambled eggs. Be it her customers or her team, putting people first is Annie's success mantra. To know the secret behind the Nutcracker scrambled egg and the story behind the name Nutcracker, tune into the episode and sit back and listen to Annie tell her story. The award winning #podcast #FoodocracyForHer by Kalyan Karmakar is India's longest running podcast featuring women entrepreneurs in the food and beverage business. Please share the episode. Please click on like as it helps the video be discovered and please do subscribe to the channel to catch future episodes of the podcast.…

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Be it on stage singing, or cooking out of a Cloud Kitchen. This home chef from Kolkata has done it all. Nandini Deb on Foodocracy For Her 1:05:42

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Nandini Deb grew up in Sovabazar, Kolkata, in a family obsessed with food. And music. Sounds like the average Bengali family? Well her family ran a restaurant and her grandmother was the first thumri singer in Kolkata. Nandini left Kolkata for Mumbai as she wanted to be a background singer. She has done many stage gigs across the country and the world and has given her voice for a Hindi film. She started a catering business from home with her partner Nirban Goswami during the pandemic. As time went by and things opened up, she realised that she enjoys this facet of her life and invested in a cloud kitchen. She has set up stalls at Bar Bank Juhu, the Bandra Durga Puja and Jio World Drive which have allowed her to interact with consumers in person. Her food line features Bengali (Habudubu), Awadhi (Lucknowi Chowk) and most recently DT (poi sandwiches). Singing remains her primary interest and career goal. How does she manage it all? Listen the episode to know more. The award winning #podcast #FoodocracyForHer by Kalyan Karmakar is India's longest running podcast featuring women entrepreneurs in the food and beverage business. Please share the episode. Please click on like as it helps the podcast to bediscovered and please do subscribe to the channel to catch future episodes of the podcast.…

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Mumbai's taco evangelist Kartikeya Ratan on Foodocracy For Her 1:54:15

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My interview with chef Kartikeya Ratan is by far the longest Foodocracy For Her podcast interview that I have done till date. When you listen to the story of a child from a doctor's family who wanted to be a chef and subsequently went to India's top hospitality school, worked in one of the top hotel kitchens in India and then one of the most inventive ones, went abroad and worked in top rated restaurants in the US and Europe where she got exposure to the diverse worlds of elevated dining, sustainability and organic produce, came back to India and worked with a very hip and forward thinking cafe 'un-chain,' first in Delhi and then Mumbai, before opening her Mexican cloud kitchen delivery and catering outfit, Kiki and Pastor, you will realise why neither of us realised the time spent. I came out of the interview inspired, as I am sure you will too. There were some internet glitches. Please treat it as the sauce that might spill out of eating a tacos. Embrace the experience ☺️ The award winning #podcast #FoodocracyForHer by Kalyan Karmakar is India's longest running podcast featuring women entrepreneurs in the food and beverage business. Please share the episode. Please click on like as it helps the video be discovered and please do subscribe to the channel to catch future episodes of the podcast.…

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From ready to wear fashion to ready to cook gravies. Home chef Misbah Mitha aces it all. #foodocracyforher 50:43

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Misbah Mitha has run a successful business as a fashion designer for 33 years. The pandemic was the first time where she sat with no work. A friend and neighbour, who was well aware of her cooking skills, bumped into her during his walk one evening. He suggested that she become a home chef as that was the need of the hour. Her husband, a retired banker, was sceptical at first. That made Misbah even more determined! She discussed the idea with her school friends. All fans of her cooking. One suggested brand names for her. Another chose the final one: Tadka Tales. The customers of her fashion business were the early adopters of her cooking. As life comes back to near normal, Misbah's fashion business took off again. Her home chef business is thriving too and she now runs two businesses. The need of a friend's son who had gone to Amsterdam to study, made Misbah launch dehydrated gravies and that's where her future focus is. Though she knows she can never stop making her butter chicken, white chicken pulao, chicken mayo sandwiches and other crowd favourites. Her husband? He became her biggest supporter once she decided to embark on this journey and is very happy to be her chief taster. The award winning #podcast #FoodocracyForHer by Kalyan Karmakar is India's longest running podcast featuring women entrepreneurs in the food and beverage business. Please share the episode. Please click on like as it helps the video be discovered and please do subscribe to the channel to catch future episodes of the podcast.…

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The former beauty industry marketer who is championing to cause of sustainable eating through jackfruits. Keertida Phadke on #foodocracyforher 1:17:59

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Keertida Phadke is a Pune girl who spent the formative years of her life in Tokyo before she moved to Pune with her parents. She went to Paris to study business management, joined L'Oreal and came back to India with them. This time to Mumbai. Her love for food made her quit and move to NYC to study to be a chef at the Natural Gourmet Institute. To know how from there she became the co-founder of Eat With Better, an enterprise that promotes sustainable eating by getting plucked and pre- cleaned unripe jackfruit to you, do catch the latest episode of #foodocracyforher featuring chef Keertida Phadke. The award winning #podcast #FoodocracyForHer by Kalyan Karmakar is India's longest running podcast featuring women entrepreneurs in the food and beverage business. Please share the episode. Please click on like as it helps the video be discovered and please do subscribe to the channel to catch future episodes of the podcast.…

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Remembering Pia: The first star of the #foodocracyforher Hall of Legends 1:22:14

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The world of Indian food became poorer on the 21st of July 2022 with the passing away of Pia Promina Dasgupta Barve in Mumbai. There was a spontaneous outpouring of grief from the many lives she had touched. To know about the multifaceted life she led, do read this article by food researcher Pritha Sen...https://tinyurl.com/4eeevr7t Many call Pia the pioneer home chef. She was baking from a time when most of us were not even born. She was behind the setting up of the iconic Kewpie restaurant in Kolkata. She moved to Mumbai where she was a lone woman working in the meat industry and she had also worked closely with the agricultural produce sector. Her culinary skills spanned not only her native Bengali cuisine, but that of the Maharashtrian side of her husband, whom she called Brave (from Barve), the colonial cuisine of the British Raj, anglo Indian, Jewish, Iranian (she had fed me tahdig once when she read that I had fond memories of it), Asian and what not; but what was most special to me were the eclairs she would make for my wife, Kainaz, because they made K smile like few other treats would. It is one of my regrets that I was not in touch with her in her last few months. I was going through my own health issues but to be honest, it was nothing that was big enough to stop me from making a phone call or from sending a text. My little way of making up to her was to reach out to some of the many whose lives she had touched and invite them to speak about her in my podcast. As I listened to Reshmy Kurian, Tara Deshpande, Manzilat Fatima and Mashushree Basu Roy & Anindya S Basu @Cook with Pikturenama share their memories of Pia, I realised that not interviewing her while I could for the #foodocracyforher is something I will always regret. Which is why, as I typed this, I decided that #foodocracyforher should have a Hall of Fame and that I would like to most humbly declare Pia Promina Dasgputa Barve its first star. The award winning #podcast #FoodocracyForHer by Kalyan Karmakar is India's longest running podcast featuring women entrepreneurs in the food and beverage business. Please share the episode. Please click on like as it helps the video be discovered and please do subscribe to the channel to catch future episodes of the podcast.…

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Not all our Gujarati is sweet. Mumbai's home chef Shital Kakad wants to bust myths around Gujarati food on #foodocracyforher 52:06

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Mumbai born Shital Kakad of Shital's Food Cottage loved food ever since she was a child. This soon translated into a love for feeding. Her initial enthusiasm was around what one could call 'world cuisine'...pizza, pasta, cakes... turning any dish that her husband liked during their travels into a vegetarian one once back home, was her super power. She then came across the world of food bloggers and chefs, initially through the FBAI, and realised the need to understand, document and share the marvels of ones native cuisine. She began cooking and feeding people dishes from her family's Surti heritage as well those that she learnt from her husband’s family, whose origins lay in Rajkot in Gujarat. She did a few pop ups, opened her own cook studio, teamed up with a gym to create keto vegetarian meals (thrice a day, across cuisines), started a food magazine till the pandemic hit us. That is when Shital decided to become a 'serious' home chef and has not looked back since then. This podcast episode tells her story till date. The award winning #podcast #FoodocracyForHer by Kalyan Karmakar is India's longest running podcast featuring women entrepreneurs in the food and beverage business. Please share the episode. Please click on like as it helps the video be discovered and please do subscribe to the channel to catch future episodes of the podcast.…

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Life, like chocolate, is bitter sweet. What matters is what makes you happy: Sanjana Pate of La Folie on #foodocracyforher 1:09:59

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Her home town of Mumbai was like a new city for her when chef Sanjana Patel moved back to India from France and opened a patisserie here. This was 9 years back when the city had just begun to wake up to modern patisserie trends. She opened La Folie in Fort from where she did largely chocolate based confectionery. It was with her outlet in Bandra, La Folie Lab, that she began introducing the city to the wonders of complex French pastries and then the world of sourdough breads before the small outlet became a very popular ingredient focussed cafe. Within a short time, both Sanjana and La Folie became the talk of the town. This is when she was struck by a series of health challenges. She had to take a 8 month break during which she and her husband and business partner, Parthesh Patel, went to South America on a cacao trail (she was on crutches due to a fracture). That's when she 'rediscovered' her passion for chocolate. Then came the Covid pandemic which put a halt on La Folie's growth path. This provided an excellent opportunity for Sanjana to do a lot of soul searching on what she wanted from life, before she took La Folie on a new direction, with her husband fully backing her. 'I am happy now,' says Sanjana, to know why and what she did to reach there, you have to listen to the interview. The award winning #podcast #FoodocracyForHer by Kalyan Karmakar is India's longest running podcast featuring women entrepreneurs in the food and beverage business. Please share the episode. Please click on like as it helps the video be discovered and please do subscribe to the channel to catch future episodes of the podcast.…

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The story behind Mumbai's favourite Gujarati restaurant Soam:Pinky Chandan Dixit #foodocracyforher 58:21

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The inaugural episode of #foodocracyforher features Pinky Chandan Dixit of Soam. She tells the story behind her setting up the restaurant which keeps winning hearts with its soulful Gujarati vegetarian food and how she tackled the pandemic months. This episode aired on 21st May 2020 as an Instagram live and Pinky and Soam have gone from strength to strength since then.…

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We want to take the story of Maharashtra's food culture to the world: Devika Kotibhaskar Khadapkar of Kokan Bazaron #foodocracyforher 59:15

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#foodocracyforher is back after a break and we have got a most wonderful episode for you. Y You will get to hear Devika Kotihaskar Khadapkar talk about Kokan Bazar which turned 14 on 9th July 2022. Kokan Bazar was founded by her mother in law, Nayan Khadapkar, who is an alumni of TISS and has been involved in social work through her career. Her aim was to generate sustainable employment for the women in the Konkan region of Maharashtra through her enterprise. Devika is a B School graduate who left her successful corporate career to join Kokan Bazar. She is trying to take the founder's values ahead by scaling and modernising the business and trying to bring the story of Konkan AND Maharashtra's food to the world through Kokan Bazar while creating wealth for its stakeholders, viz, those who create the produce. #FoodocracyForHer by Kalyan Karmakar is India's longest running podcast featuring women entrepreneurs in the food and beverage business. Please share the episode. Please click on like as it helps the episode be discovered and please do subscribe to the channel to catch future episodes of the podcast.…

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The noodle maker's granddaughter who is taking the family legacy ahead through her food: Kolkata's chef Sachiko Seth on #foodocracyforher 1:06:34

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Chef Sachiko Seth, who is of Tibetan origin, was born in Kalimpong in the hills of Bengal. Her mother Doma Wang (pronounced Wong) had started a home chef enterprise in Kolkata back then. Making momos at home and selling them across Salt Lake. Sachiko, whose pet name is Puchu, remembers waking up as a 4 year old to the sight of her mum and her team making momos, thukpa and chowmein in their house for orders. It was her breakfast too. When a bit older, she was given the responsibility of helping deliver the momos and later learnt how to make them. She took some time to figure out what she wanted to do in life and after school went to Chandigarh to be a tattoo artist. Which is when it struck her that she wanted to carry on her family legacy. Her grandfather was a noodle maker and Puchu had fond memories of his enterprise in Kalimpong. Sachiko returned to Kolkata and told Doma (a #Foodocracyforher alumni) that she wanted to work with her at Blue Poppy, the Sikkim House canteen in Kolkata that her mother was running. She was a bit shocked when she was told she had to wait on tables first before she worked in the kitchen and in the kitchen wash dishes first, then chop and prep ingredients before she got anywhere close to the cooking area. All of these experiences came of use when Sachiko opened Blue Poppy Thakali, 'based on memories on the range of food I had as a kid in Kalimpong', in Kolkata after the Sikkim House canteen lease got over. The family also runs Blue Poppy Express, a delivery kitchen in Kolkata, and Blue Poppy in Gangtok. Doma di, as she is fondly known in Kolkata, remains the guiding force with the new gen taking her legacy ahead. Chef Sachio0 is painfully shy and it was a privilege to get to interview her. Do not miss out on the chance to listen to her cook. #FoodocracyForHer by Kalyan Karmakar is India's longest running podcast featuring women entrepreneurs in the food and beverage business. Please share the episode. Please click on like as it helps the video be discovered and please do subscribe to the channel to catch future episodes of the podcast.…

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I want to make India proud by celebrating our ingredients: Chef Niyati Rao, Ekaa, Mumbai 1:17:03

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There was once a little girl in Mumbai who would go to school every day and fret over the three R's ... reading, writing and 'rithmetic. She was dyslexic and these shibboleths of the conventional education system just didn't talk to her. She would come home feeling frustrated, sit in the kitchen and see her mother (a Gujarati) and paternal grand-mom (an Andhra'ite) cook for the family. This was her happy place. She would see the joy that the food cooked by the two ladies would give to all at her home and then had her eureka moment, 'cooking can be my super power.' 'I want to be a chef,' she told her mother. Not that our young hero had any reference point to go by then. Her dad was a renowned musician. Her mother a scientist in pharmacalogy. Her parents did not say anything. A few days later, the little girl and her mum were travelling down Dadar in Mumbai in a cab. "See that building to our left?" asked mum to her daughter. "That is where India's top chefs come from." Fast forward a few years and our superhero, now a teen, cleared the competitive exams and walked into the hallowed portals of IHM, Mumbai, aka the 'Dadar Catering College." 'Hallowed portals' became synonymous with the story of chef Niyati Rao. She said goodbye to India's straightjacketed education when school got over. She came into her own at college and then walked down the 'hallowed portals' of Taj Mahal Mumbai, where she worked at the legendary Zodiac Grill, the Chambers and Wasabi, Mumbai, at the very start of her career. She then spent some time at A Reverie, Goa, where she learnt what it meant to helm a kitchen and create a menu. More 'hallowed portals' followed. She worked at Noma, Copenhagen, for a while before the pandemic and a personal health crisis made her return to India. After two years of cooling her heels at home, a message from Sagar Neve, once a fellow intern at the JW Marriott, Mumbai, led to their getting together and opening Ekaa, Mumbai. Will it gain 'hallowed portals' status one day is anybody's guess. Some say Ekaa is India's best restaurant...our food media glossies do tend to go overboard at times. Others were in a hurry to say why it is not 'India's best' ...we are the original 'crab in a pot' country after all. Chef Niyati has no time for this. As the co-founder and head chef of Ekaa, her focus is to put ingredients first. And the customer. That's all. Oh and yes, after her Noma experience, she is hellbent to make India proud by "the time I am done with it." Sounds like the stuff of a biopic? Hold on. Niyati is just 28 (!) and has many more stories to create. For now, do listen to the podcast where for the first time ever (yay) she talks about her life and dreams as a chef. Oh, and she is a fellow cat parent and our respective cats sat by us during the interview. #FoodocracyForHer by Kalyan Karmakar is India's longest running podcast featuring women entrepreneurs in the food and beverage business. Please share the episode. Please click on like as it helps the video be discovered and please do subscribe to the channel to catch future episodes of the podcast.…

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From wanting to make films to running her own restaurants. Kolkata's Chef Urvika Kanoi on #foodocracyforher 1:14:25

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Once upon a time, there was a Marwari girl from Kolkata who grew up in a family with no food restrictions. She went to Singapore to study film making after her school finals. Cooked for her friends there. Realised that she enjoyed cooking more than she enjoyed making films. Still in her teens, she went off on a journey of self discovery by attending a cooking course. She attained enlightenment there and went to Le Cordon Bleau, London, to study. She returned to Calcutta. Interned in top hotel kitchens. Realised that everyone treated her as her papa's daughter and decided that she did not want to be pampered by her bosses! She quit to start a Latin American restaurant in Kolkata which had the city eating out of her hands. It imploded in a couple of years thanks to investor issues and she decided that independent was the way for her. She set up her own contemporary European cafe in the city of tetrazini, fish a la Diana, chicken a la kiev and managed to finally shake Calcutta out of the age of classic French sauces. Not before she faced a lot of trouble from the para uncles and mastans whom she faced head on. She then decided to come to Mumbai and Bandra west at that, land of some of the most prime real estate in the world, and opened a small Latin American Cafe. She claims to be a non-baker, but my wife orders in her keto brownie almost everyday. I am and proud to present a global citizen from my home town, chef Urvika Kanoi of The Daily, Kolkata, and Cafe Duco, Mumbai, in the latest episode of #foodocracyforher #FoodocracyForHer by Kalyan Karmakar is India's longest running podcast featuring women entrepreneurs in the food and beverage business. Please share the episode. Please click on like as it helps the video be discovered and please do subscribe to the channel to catch future episodes of the podcast.…

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The home baker from Allahabad who established a brownie empire in Mumbai: Prachi Agarwal Goel of Brownie Cottage in #foodocracyforher 51:00

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Prachi Agarwal Goel is the head chef and co-founder of Brownie Cottage, established in 2005. In the first episode of the podcast she spoke about how her summer holiday trips to Mumbai from Allahabad as a child got her interested in the world of baking. Of how she did a bakery course at the Sophia Polytechnic after her graduation at Allahabad as the love of her life and her future life partner had (and still has) 'a massive sweet tooth.' In the second and concluding part of the podcast, chef Prachi talks about starting a home baking enterprise after marriage and of then moving to Mumbai with her husband to create something of 'scale,' as that was the life goal inculcated in her during her three month internship in the bakery department of the Oberoi, Mumbai. A decision which led to the birth of the Brownie Cottage. An enterprise that has grown from strength to strength and is in its 18th year now. #FoodocracyForHer by Kalyan Karmakar is India's longest running podcast featuring women entrepreneurs in the food and beverage business. Please share the episode. Please click on like as it helps the video be discovered and please do subscribe to the channel to catch future episodes of the podcast.…

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How interning at the Oberoi Mumbai led to the birth of Mumbai's Brownie Queen. Prachi Agarwal Goel of Brownie Cottage on #FoodocracyForher 51:01

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Prachi Agarwal Goel is the head chef and co-founder of Brownie Cottage, established in 2005. Setting up a food business was never the life plan of this academic topper from Allahabad who grew up in a conservative Marwari joint family. It was her love for baking and her future husband and co-founder of Brownie Cottage, Raghav Goel's, massive sweet tooth which led her to do a course on baking at Mumbai's Sophia Polytechnic. From there she was selected to do a specialised training programme at the Oberoi, Mumbai. At the end of her three month internship, Prachi was convinced that she wanted to build a business that espoused the values that she had internalised at this Indian run world class luxury hotel group. A dream which eventually led to the birth of the Browni Cottage. Listen to Part 1 of the podcast to know more about the inspirational story of the Brownie Queen of Mumbai. #FoodocracyForHer by Kalyan Karmakar is India's longest running podcast featuring women entrepreneurs in the food and beverage business. Please share the episode. Please click on like as it helps the video be discovered and please do subscribe to the channel to catch future episodes of the podcast.…

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Bachi Karkaria on the Curries and Caviar that Captured the Dreams of Captain C.P. Krishnan Nair 51:05

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"We didn't talk about food. I read up on my notes on the food bits for you,' exclaimed the indomitable Bachi Karkaria at the end of my interview of her on her latest book, Capture The Dream. Her biography of the late Captain C.P. Krishnan Nair, the founder of the Leela Group. Truth be told, this very readable book left me with so much food for thought that I forgot to ask Bachi about the role the Captain's mother's prawn pickle and his wife Leela's prawn curries played in shaping his rather eventful life. So WHAT did we talk about? For that you have to click and listen and at the end is a bonus, a masterclass on journalism by Bachi. This is part 1 of our chat Do click on like if you enjoyed the chat, share the episode, subscribe to the channel and above all, buy the book. #book #bookpodcast #amwriting bachikarkaria #captainnair #leelalace #bleedingmadras #leelahotels #finetlychoppedTV #radiofinelychopped #kerala #curry #hotel #besthotels #kalyankarmakar #finelychoppedpodcasts…

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The Tails of My Life Ep 4: Billi Bhaag Jayega. The runaway bride. 21:45

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The story of a cat called Maharani. An outside cat. Who became an inside outside cat. And now is an inside cat named Baby Loaf, lying beside me on the bed while I type this. Things might change the moment the bell rings though as he would make a dash to run out of our apartment which has been his too for more than 2 years now. I do hope you liked this episode and do share it. #cat #catperson #catlover #radiofinelychopped #thekittykarmakars #thetailsofmylife #catpodcast #mumbaicat #adoptdontshop…

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The Tails Of My Life 3: It takes a village. The story of Mau. The cat formerly known as Baby Marsh. 17:52

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The story of a cat named Mau and of how he brought a bunch of us together through his search for his forever home. While I am yet to meet him in person, Mao is special as he is the first kitten whom I helped find a house for. After opening our own home to two. All the people mentioned in the podcasts have themselves adopted community cats and feed and look after many more. #TheTailsOfMyLife is my podcast on cats and I hope you like it and share it and do rate the channel on whichever podcast app you use so that more can listen to it. I hope to make a book out of this someday. cat #catlover #catsofmumbai #catpeople #adoptdontshop #radiofinelychopped…

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The Tails of My Life Ep 2: There’s a Maharani in the building 18:25

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In this episode on my podcast on the cats in my life, which will hopefully someday become a book, I tell you the story of a cat whom I named Maharani who met me in our building lobby and made me fall in love with cats. I narrated the episode while our cats Baby Loaf and little Nimki sat by me on the bed before they went off to sleep. Was it really so boring? What happened to Maharani? Tune in the listen and do subscribe to the channel and leave a comment and a review too. #cats #catperson #catpodcast #kittykarmakars #podcasts #bandra #mumbai #adoptdontshop…

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The Tails Of My Life Ep 1: The Crazy Cat Dad 11:36

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Hi, my name is Kalyan Karmakar. I am a food writer based in Mumbai. This is the first episode of my new podcast, ‘The tails of my life.’ A title given by my wife for a book she thinks I should write. No, it’s not about food. It’s about the cats in my life. Someone who disliked cats till November 2019 and whose word now centres around them. Do tune in as I stories from our lives together and tell you how our lives have become magical since then. Do show this some love, share with fellow cat and pet lovers and with anyone who wants to switch off from the daily grind for a bit and wants to unwind over a good yarn. #adoptdontshop #catpeople #kittykarmakars #babyloaf #littlenimki #bandra #mumbai #cat #radiofinelychopped…

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My kingdom for an egg; The K&K Dig Food Podcast. 58:33

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Pre recording. K: What should we talk of today? K: Let's talk about eggs. I had some lovely eggs for breakfast. K: So did I. You do realise that by this logic we will do a podcast on eggs every week?! K: What a lovely idea! In this episode Kurush and Kalyan speak about poached eggs and French toasts and of how Bengalis revolutionaries have 'redefined them both,' while the Parsis remained loyal to Her Majesty. Of how one must take stories told by grandmoms about the stretchability of a single egg with a pinch of salt. They talk about the Parsi 'par eedu' concept of eggs, and of how to any Bengali an egg curry where the boiled egg is not slit and and tempered in oil first is nothing worse than a CIA conspiracy. In between Kurush shares his father's mayonnaise recipe and if you wait till the end, you will hear him share his akoori recipe, but not before Kalyan talks about how deem sheddo and phyana bhaat is all about pure love. 'K&K Dig Food' is a podcast on food hosted by Dr Kurush Dalal and Kalyan Karmakar from Mumbai (and navi Mumbai). Kurush is an archeologist and food ethnographer, who is a proud son of Mumbai ,and is possibly one of the most quoted people in articles on Indian food written in recent times. He runs a series of very popular online courses on food writing and is a much sought after speaker in food events. He is married to a Bengali (not Kalyan), Rhea Mitra Dalal and runs Katy's Kitchen with her, a Parsi catering company started by his mother the late Dr Katy Dalal. Kalyan is a sociology student and an MBA, who started his career as a qualitative market researcher where he figured out that he loves interviewing people and moderating. Anchors he likes to model himself on swing from Dr Prannoy Roy to Cyrus Broacha! He is a food blogger, published author and likes to call himself a 'columnist' so that he can write about his breakfast and get done with work for the day! He is married to a Parsi (not Kurush), Kainaz Karmakar, who when not babysitting the three boys at home, Kalyan, Baby Loaf and Little Nimki (the last two are cats, but no one has broken this to them), works in advertising. Kalyan and Kurush bond over a shared love for food, wry humour and Valibhai. You can google the more boring parts about their lives. Now be a dear and share this, click on like and subscribe to the channel…

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Are you sleeping with the enemy: Breast cancer survivor Shormista Mukherjee on #foodocracyforher 1:05:32

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#foodocracyforher is where I speak to women doing amazing work in the world of food. My next guest, Shormistha Mukherjee, is not in the food business. Yet. Not directly at least. Though as the co-owner of the digital agency Flying Cursor, this former legacy advertising professional has worked with clients in the food space and with creators too. She is an enthusiastic patron of home chefs and was part of the jury of the Home Cheffies 2021, India's first Home Chef Power Brand Awards. She is a former colleague of my wife and one of the earliest friends that I made through blogging and now a friend of the entire family. Her cat Tugga is big brother to our Baby Loaf and little Nimki. This interview is about none of that. A few years back, Shormistha was diagnosed as having breast cancer. She battled it and then wrote a book. 'Cancer, you picked the wrong girl.' Her mission, to alert women to the need to check for breast cancer. A stitch in time saves nine, as the adage goes. And it's never 'too early' to check, she adds. A big supporter of #foodocracyforher, Shormistha most kindly came here to spread this important message on #worldcancerday. We do hope you watch it and share it...and...once you do, you will realise that the message goes out as much to women as us men. #FoodocracyForHer by Kalyan Karmakar is India's longest running podcast featuring women entrepreneurs in the food and beverage business. Please share the episode. Please click on like as it helps the video be discovered and please do subscribe to the channel to catch future episodes of the podcast.…

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The former fashion marketer who is now helping you gift people delicious, yet healthy treats: Megha Phull on #foodocracyforher 58:24

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Megha Phull was born in Bhillai, grew up in Delhi and lived in various cities ranging from Glasgow to Mumbai before moving to Singapore last year. She worked in the fashion industry after completing her higher studies in the field. She took a break when her son was born 12 years back, conscious of the fact that she would like to resume her career once her son was a bit older. Resume she did, but not in fashion, it was food this time! Always a foodie, Megha had got a perspective of clean and conscious eating thanks to her dietician Charmaine D'Souza. 5 years back Megha started Zealo Foods, with an aim to offer tasty and yet healthy gifting options to people. The last 5 year has been an interesting ride and the business, which initially started with her two house help as her first employees, has grown organically. 'Focus' and 'take and work on advice' and her two success mantras. Watch this episode for more practical tips from her. Having tried some of her products, I must say that I vouch for her work. #FoodocracyForHer by Kalyan Karmakar is India's longest running podcast featuring women entrepreneurs in the food and beverage business. Please share the episode. Please click on like as it helps the video be discovered and please do subscribe to the channel to catch future episodes of the podcast.…

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The neuro biologist who is on a mission to make chefs out of the differently abled. #FoodocracyForher 1:19:30

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