Author - Viraj Borkar | Co-Author - Aditi Kane

FOREWORD BY CELEBRITY CHEF - MANEET CHAUHAN

DREAMS OF BECOMING A CHEF, AMBITION OF BECOMING AN ENTREPRENEUR, BEING THOUSANDS OF MILES FROM HOME AND BEING AN IMMIGRANT. THERE ARE ONLY THOUGHTS, PHILOSOPHIES INDUCED BY MENTORS AND FRIENDS ALIKE AND BOOKS AND MOVIES TO TAKE YOU ON A FANTASY TOUR TO INSPIRE YOU, PROTECT YOU AND GET YOU THROUGH ALL THE UPS AND DOWNS.

THE RESULT IS THIS BOOK, SMALL PUBLICATION - A RAW, NAKED TAPESTRY OF EMOTIONS AND HOMELY INDIAN RECIPES. IT TAKES YOU ON A CONFUSING YET SOMEHOW “IT-MAKES-SENSE” KIND OF A JOURNEY WHILE PUSHING YOU TO TRY SOME NEW, SIMPLE, HOMELY RECIPES.

Excerpt:

He drew a blank as he was trying to construct a dinner menu for an upcoming project. He was thinking of may be a black lentil burrata, sous-vide tandoori chicken in a foam tomato sauce or spiced sturgeon sabayon, but those ideas did not seem to excite hi. He wondered what was wrong as he strolled through a park…. just then he spotted a little girl eating out of her lunchbox that she seemed to have gotten from her home. Something about that scene took him back to his own childhood, his culinary beginnings……