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What’s cooking, Hayden?
TWIN PASSIONS Matthew Hayden combines cricket with cookery
What do cricketers pack? Clothes? Sure. A bat? Of course. A bread maker? Certainly… if we’re talking about Matthew Hayden.
So, the next time you’re behind him in an airport queue, you know what that oddly shaped object in his baggage is. And if you’re ever staying in the same hotel, and develop an undeniable hankering for freshly baked bread, you now know whose door to knock on.
Carries burner
Legendary for feeding his teammates even when they travel, Hayden says,
“I carry a bread maker and just one burner,” adding, “And a saucepan.” Currently touring the country for the IPL, he’s letting the five star chefs take care of his daily bread while he gleefully investigates the kitchens. So it’s hardly surprising that he eventually chose to combine his two passions, writing and cricket, with the Matthew Hayden Cookbook, featuring recipes he learnt from his travels around the world for matches.
Second book
The Matthew Hayden Cookbook 2 followed, again with recipes from everywhere, ranging from the backwaters of Kerala to a New Zealand vineyard.
As he begins to cook a dish, a lobster stir-fry of sorts, he pulverises a flurry of lemon wedges, delightedly squeezing their juice all over his palms and the dish. “I love the colour of the food here,” he beams, adding that he finds cooking very relaxing.
“I go into kitchens, I talk to chefs… we talk about food.”
Judging by how Hayden’s relishing his lobster, it might just be destined for his next cookbook. (A wild guess at the title — Matthew Hayden Cookbook 3?)
So, don’t be too surprised if you get tantalising aromas of sizzling lobster at any five star hotel, the next time Hayden’s in town.
SHONALI MUTHALALY
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