Celebrity chef Vikas Khanna on Indian cuisine and his book Utsav

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Celebrity chef Vikas Khanna on Indian cuisine and his book Utsav. MasterChef India host Vikas Khanna talks about his book Utsav and what makes Indian cuisine special. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv

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00:00As a person who travels a lot and I'm totally based out of New York City, one thing which

00:18I absolutely love and crave about Indian food is the culture of it.

00:25The cuisine has such a deep history, rituals, customs and food is an essential part of it.

00:33For me, Indian food is not just food, for me it's the culture of the country.

00:42My next project is a work of 12 years of labour of love, passion, devotion.

00:48It's called Utsav, it's one of the largest cookbooks in the world, 1200 pages, binds

00:54the whole of India together.

00:56So when people talk about a book, a book is paper bound inside a cover, I say that Utsav

01:03is bound with love.

01:05It's research on festivals of India, their traditions and most importantly, what makes

01:12India.

01:13The history of the country is so deep and it's beautiful in its own way, it's humble,

01:18it's pride, Utsav has everything.

01:24For me, that's just simple lentils and rice, I can eat that every single day of my life.

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