Food and Me..

Food for some is a natural- biological process,a part of evolution,something that NEEDS TO BE DONE everyday,for some it is what they go through all the struggles in life,whereas for some its recreation,therapy,passion,obsession.

Well I fall in the last category OBSESSION. There is a very thin line of difference between passion and obsession.When you get images similar to that of DEXTER,(the sucessful TV series of a blood splatter analyst,who becomes a vigilante/bad guy executioner by night) just that mine are full of fresh produce,best meat in place of dead bodies and serial killers.So when you have things like this you are obssesed.I have what I like to call OGD(Obsessive Gastronomic Disorder).

Be it cooking,eating,watching(tv,youtube),smelling,listening,reading.I adore everything related to food.Maybe its kind of inbuilt in me now,whenevr I'm near food,the dish starts getting deconstructed in my head graphically.As in how from a raw tomato, its become the pasta sauce that you are relishing.Its hard to recreate this exact phenomenon in words,but it is an amazing experience.

I try my best to challenge myself everyday, hone my skills everyday. Like one might think that the way to cut an onion or sharpen a knife is like the best and only way to do it. But I try to see if I can enhance the same.

I consider myself bloody lucky to have worked under some great Chefs(a Chef and a Cook are NOT the same  who have played a major role in what I am today and that list includes top notch chefs from 5stars to my mum and grandma.This industry is one of the most demanding one around,where you have to maintain the standards and meet the customers’ demands everyday by default.

I head a small kitchen(in terms of dimensions of it and nothing else,standards here are as good as any gourmet kitchen around the world),but the quality of food that we churn out from this tiny kitchen will make any 5star chef think twice(considering that a good part of our clientele are from some of the biggest  hotel brands in India ranging from GM's to executives)about the food.
And people ask us again and again how we manage to do that??And all we say(with a big smile)is "Its the love",and yes it is the love,passion and drive that gets us there.