Vandana Jain wins Best Indian Cuisine Cook Book at 2013 Gourmand Awards

Interview with Dubai resident Vandana Jain, winner of the Best Indian Cuisine Cook Book at the the 2013 Gourmand World Cook Book Awards.

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00:00I always passionate about cooking since childhood. I used to help my mother also in the kitchen.

00:17I didn't take any formal education. I learned my own by trial and error method. I just love

00:24to create different recipes with mixing the different ingredients and sometimes it come

00:29out very well sometimes it's not but whenever it comes out very well it gives a very like

00:35a wow effect. I received the title best in the world for my very first cookbook. Actually the

00:42credit goes to my husband. He is only the one who is my pillar of strength throughout. Although I

00:48am making a different type of cuisine from around the world like Indian, Mexican, Italian, Chinese,

00:54Japanese everything but I love simple Indian dal, rice, roti, sabzi. I want to keep writing cookery

01:02books. My first book has given me a stepping stone. I look forward to open a cooking school

01:08where people can learn cooking with a passion not as a compulsion. Cooking is my passion,

01:13cooking is a creativity and cooking is an art that emanates from the heart.