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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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A solitary cook works quietly at the stove, surrounded by restrained Memphis geometry—a portrait of cooking as private attention.

Personal Essay

Cooking for One

3 min read
A satirical vintage illustration of a garlic naan transformed into a rubber tyre, standing upright on a plain ceramic plate.

Food & Opinion

Stop Ordering Garlic Naan with Your Curries

2 min read
A line-art study contrasting a small, crisp Bombay red onion and its fine browned crescents with a much larger, coarser North American red onion and thicker rings.

Food & Technique

An Onion Is Not Just an Onion

3 min read
An editorial illustration of a crowded Old Delhi nihari shop, with a calm vendor ladling stew from a recessed cauldron as customers raise steel containers and cash around him.

Restaurants & Places

I Don’t Want a Michelin Star. I Want What Kallu Has.

5 min read
A chef prepares large cuts of meat beside a row of knives in a professional kitchen.

Kitchen Culture

Seven Times

4 min read
Nishar Diwan and Ahmer Naqvi smiling together on a Toronto street.

Culture & Identity

There Is No Border Between Us

9 min read
Cultured butter, yoghurt, a churner and deep-gold ghee arranged as an editorial still life.

Food & Technique

Ghee Is Not Clarified Butter

2 min read