From his grandmother's rustic chulha to the aromatic street food of Lucknow... Chef Ranveer Brar spoke to Brut on how he fell in love with food.
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00:30I think the inspiration for me deciding to be a chef, it will always be the city of Lucknow.
00:42My parents said, no, you know, you'll be our landlords and so on so forth and it was just
00:52and they said it's an infatuation.
00:54So this was more to convince them to say, hey, I'm very serious about it and I'll show
01:00you the next six, seven months, this is all I'm going to do, I'm going to just stay away
01:04from home and do this, that will probably make you believe that I'm serious about it.
01:24My grandmother used to make this for me when I was a kid, it's called churi, a very typical
01:42Punjabi concoction, quite similar to the churma laddu that we know.
01:48So and that's a very, very clear and vivid memory of my grandmother and I used to say,
01:55I'm hungry.
01:56She used to go into the kitchen, make some hot chapatis, put hot ghee on top, put shakkar,
02:02you know, the gur wali shakkar and then just mix the whole thing and I used to be amazed.
02:07Now when I look back, I take a lot from her.
02:18At one point in time, the person who used to cook, he said, today you have to cook meethe
02:28chawal banane, gur wali, because of the lady who used to do it, she had gone, apne maai
02:34ke gayi bhi thi hoon.
02:35So I had seen it till then, I had seen it every Sunday, you know, and so it was sort
02:42of in my memory.
02:43And I cooked that out of memory and it came out pretty well.
03:13Every time you cook, you're sharing a part of you, whether it's an emotion, a feeling,
03:17a memory, your happiness, you're sharing and it's selfish not to share.