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Spice Queen
SUCHITRA BEHAL
She’s the petite Indian with a pucca accent doing Indian food on British TV. That’s MADHUR JAFFERY for you. The lady, who was the original curry propagator to the British, is thrilled that Asian food is on a high.
Jaffery, who travels to some of the remotest corners of India to source her recipes and has often secreted out some from the most mealy-mouthed cooks, learnt to cook only when she lived as a student. abroad. “I missed Indian food and then started writing to my mother and that’s how I learnt,” said she.
Of course it was on the sets of her films (she acts too) that she soon perfected that art. “Indian food is much more than chicken tikka masala. People in Europe are beginning to recognise that it’s a little more than that but the pace isn’t as fast as I would like it to be. But many Indians too don’t know enough about regional cuisines so…”
What food does she love the most? “I love to be invited to people’s homes.” She loves her pastas just as much as Thai or Mexican and when she “does English, then it’s a well cooked Shepherd’s Pie cooked by me.”
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