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I write as a chef: through ingredients, professional technique, fieldwork, memory and the cultural arguments hiding inside a meal.

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Food & Opinion

I Hated Tony

17 min read
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Food & Culture

The Perfect Last Bite

10 min read

Recipes & Technique

Big Mac Sauce Recipe

4 min read
A stylized red chilli turns continuously in a three-dimensional animation.

Food & Culture

Tujhko mirchi lagi toh me kya karu

14 min read
A browned chicken drumstick rests in a central serving dish while hands pause around a family table.

Food & Society

Who Gets the Good Piece?

15 min read
A crayon illustration of two people sitting in a dark green 1970s Mercedes beneath the golden pool of a streetlight at night.

Culture & Identity

What the Arab Dads Hear

11 min read
A small, worn stainless-steel school tiffin sits alone against a warm ivory background.

Culture & Identity

What Did Your Mother Pack?

10 min read
A rough black truffle emerging from a crumpled brown paper bag beside a striped heirloom tomato on a pale green background.

Personal Essay

Oviinbyrd, of Seasons and Produce

3 min read
An ordinary worktable with a tablet, handwritten coffee notes, mineral packets and a black kettle beneath a window.

Kitchen Life

Workplaces as Places of Worship

1 min read
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Culture & Identity

On a Good Eid: Celebration of Life and Death

4 min read
The Arabic word for halal, rendered in bold black calligraphy on a warm ivory background.

Restaurants & Places

A Definitive Guide to Ridgeway Plaza

11 min read

Recipes & Technique

Hyderabadi Dawat-Style Chicken Dum Biryani

18 min read
A single opened letter rests against a warm off-white background.

Personal Essay

A Letter from My 18-Year-Old Self

3 min read
An unlabelled glass ketchup bottle stands centred against a warm off-white background.

Food & Memory

Ketchup: A Cross-Cultural Nostalgia

3 min read
A single golden samosa stands centred against a warm off-white background.

Culture & Identity

Unity in Diversity: A Tale of Four Samosas in Vadodara

4 min read
An empty, weathered copper biryani lagan rests against a quiet cream background.

Food & Opinion

Authenticity Is Overrated

2 min read
A lone ceiling-mounted fire alarm watches from a warm ivory field, its tiny red indicator suggesting an implacable lawman overhead.

Kitchen Life

Me and That Goddamned Fire Alarm

2 min read
A plane ticket traces a journey from Mumbai to Mumbai by way of Paris, reflecting a culinary return home through French training.

Personal Essay

I Got Home by Way of France

2 min read