Podcast: Madhur Jaffrey on Indian Cooking & Writing Cookbooks
By Kamla Bhatt • Nov 1st, 2012Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Books and Authors, Diaspora, Food, People, Travel
Madhur Jaffrey is an actress, author and a cook, who seems absolutely indefatigable. Now in her late 70s she continues to write, act, and is back on the BBC this year with a new TV series Curry Nation that looks at the impact of Indian curry in the UK. In the 1980s her BBC series Flavors of India introduced a whole new generation of people to Indian cooking. Besides writing, she also continues to act in plays and films. She started her acting career in the 1960s.
A couple of years ago I got to meet Madhur in San Francisco when she released her cookbook At Home With Madhur Jaffrey . We spoke about her book, cooking, Indian food, acting, Ismail Merchant and Diwali. I had previously spoken to her in 2006 about her autobiography Climbing The Mango Tree, which is her food memories of growing up in Delhi. Here is the link to the previous podcast with Madhur Jaffrey talking about food in Delhi.
Here is Part-1 of the podcast interview that was just published, where Madhur talks about how she came to write the book and why. She also gives us a peek into her writing process. How does she go about writing her cookbooks?
Tune back in for Part-2 of the interview, where she talks about Indian food in Delhi, UK and the US.
Madhur Jaffrey cook books are good. Its made cooking so simple.