Krish Ashok has been the purveyor of fine entertainment for quite a long time for a lot of us. A decade ago we had listened to his wickedly funny ReTRibution to AtTRibution: Our ConTRibution, shared it round, listened to it again and again till we were quoting bits of it (with the autotuning!). Here it is so you can listen to it again on Soundcloud.

If you have been following him on Twitter, you would have seen his forays into and subsequent immersion into cooking. Now he has turned that into a book where he explores the scientific basis of cooking, and firmly destroys the myth that the kitchen and a chemistry lab are two different things!

Here’s an excerpt from his book, called Masala Lab:

How all Indians (including teetotallers) end up consuming a lot of alcohol without knowing it

An excerpt from Krish Ashok’s ‘Masala Lab’, an exploration of the science of Indian cooking.

And here’s more of Krish Ahok being himself with his Christmas cake recipe, lest we be accused of ignoring seasonality!

Let’s bake a cake

Decoding the science of folding batter, adding alcohol, and oven temperature—just in time for Christmas

And since all of this means you already want to buy the book, go for it here!

Masala Lab: The Science of Indian Cooking

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