What are your interests or hobbies?

Cooking, Bollywood Music, Dancing, Shopping- I say it how it is

What are you passionate about?

Life!

What is your favorite type of food/cuisine?

Oriental. I love Thai. Not sure I’d survive it in Thailand though!

What is your favorite food memory?

It’s more to do with the delight I have seen on the faces of people who have attended my classes when they sit to taste their freshly prepared meal more than what I’ve eaten.

From whom did you learn to cook?

I always had an interest in cutting out recipes from the newspapers and maintaining a dairy since the 90’s which I still have, sitting in the kitchen and watching my mum cook helped. My cravings during my pregnancies made me go all the way and try out new recipes. Feeding friends while in UK and a strong will to cook healthy and use no instant packets,soda,food colour made me enjoy every meal I prepared. I didn’t know any cooking when I got married being the youngest of three and the only daughter I was asked to enjoy life and take care of my long nails. So I probably taught myself to cook with many calls to India from UK depending on the menu I decided in the early years of marriage. It is a joy to cook and teach. Curry Classes was born out of the fact that cooking had become one more thing I was passionate about.

What is the best party you have ever attended or thrown?

I have always had friends over in UK to satisfy every palate that sat at the dinner table. I’ve had masala dosa evenings, chaat esp ragada pattis evenings and the traditional south Indian elaborate ‘sadya’ as we call it. I have enjoyed feeding friends. A party with great music and a dance floor I have always enjoyed and continue to.

Which charity, if any, do you support?

Shanti Bhavan by The George Foundation

Is there anything else you want our Foodies to know about you?

I have been a model, walked the ramp, done press advertisements and enjoyed it all in the late 90’s. I loved my Curry Classes in UK, was teaching in a cookery school, from home, 6 wk courses at the Chelmsford College and Anglia Ruskin University. I am starting up Curry Classes here in Whitefield and hope it does well. Cooking is a joy it’s not a chore. I was interviewed on BBC Essex radio breakfast show and spoke the truth about Indian food. We eat healthy and most of us do not cook in ghee and at home we do not add food color like the take always did in UK!