Q+ A THE MASTER AS CHEF
India Today|December 13, 2021
Nobel Laureate ABHIJIT BANERJEE takes his cooking as seriously as he does economics. Cooking to Save Your Life, his new book of recipes, reads like a long list of awards anyone can win if they put food first
Shreevatsa Nevatia
Q+ A THE MASTER AS CHEF

Q. You say you want to liberate our “inner gourmet cooks” with this book. What made you want to take on this project?

I love cooking. I think it is incredibly therapeutic. It is a domain where, unlike most forms of creativity, you get results fast. That helps because I’m impatient. Also, it’s the only art which is unavoidable for us. We all do it, so we might as well enjoy it.

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