[FOOD] We Love

What does loving food actually cost you, and what does it give back?

We kick off [\BLANK] We Love with the most universal love of all: food. Our first guest, Adarsh Suresh, is a self-taught home cook who never met a recipe he’d actually follow. He grew up in a South Indian vegetarian household but fell for Punjabi and Italian cooking instead, and he’s spent years since chasing flavor by instinct, blending three sauces into one pink pasta, attempting dal makhani pasta, and learning which fusion ideas slap and which belong in the bin.

Adarsh makes the case for cream as the ingredient worth defending to the death, confesses the one dish that still defeats him every time, and explains why cooking from scratch, resting the dough and cutting every onion by hand, is how he decompresses after a long day. Ishita and Alejandro also delve into whether viral food is ever as good as it looks, why “spicy” and “well-seasoned” aren’t the same thing, and how a really good meal becomes a way to bond with the people you love.