[1]Anjum Anand’s latest online show Spice Nights focuses on quick cooking. However, the TV chef and cookery writer says she likes to take her own time while cooking at home. “I am always thinking and experimenting with food, therefore I like to cook at my own pace,” says Anjum, who was in the capital to attend the Creative Service Support Group Gastronomy Summit 2012 at The Leela Palace recently.
Anjum says that she is pleased with the popularity of the reality food shows and food channels in India. However, commenting on models like Padma Lakshmi turning chefs on TV she says, “I would rather like to see someone who is in love with food hosting the cookery shows instead of a pretty face turning into a chef.”
The food expert says one flip side of being a celebrity chef is that you are always tasting so many flavours that at the end of the day all you hanker for is the simplest food possible. “Once I am done with cooking exotic dishes I hardly ever eat it and rather go for fruit salad,” she adds. Famous for two series on Indian food Made Easy on BBC 2 and author of six books, Anjum says her latest book Anjum’s Indian Vegetarian Feast is an attempt to make cooking fun for vegetarians.
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