🎵Beat It — Michael Jackson. Not the celebration version. The proving-something version.
🕯A small kitchen, Koramangala BDA Complex, Bangalore. 8th or 9th standard. Guests in the next room. A boy with a wok and a very specific ambition he hadn't yet named.
☁️Triumphant. The particular triumph of someone who made something from nothing and watched the room notice.
Cooking · Culinary Arts
First Light
The First Time I Made Something Worth Eating
On soy sauce, a restaurant in Koramangala, and the discovery that cooking was never really about the food.