Chef Vikas Khanna in a hearty chat with TOI on a recent visit to the city.
The minute the doors open, he is swarmed with women holding plates full of food and asking for photographs (not in that order though!). Chef Vikas Khanna is an affable person in real life too as he strikes an instant connect with people, posing for pictures and giving out cooking tips, his ill-health notwithstanding. For someone whose culinary journey started off when he started to help his grandmother in the kitchen to owning a Michelin star restaurant in New York, Vikas has come a long way. But he says, "The journey has not yet started. I have just bought the ticket and there's a long way to go." Vikas was in Ahmedabad to audition for Masterchef India Season 3.
About the new season of the show, he says, "Home-cooked food was not much in focus in the previous season of the show. We are hoping to change that. The real cooks in India are homemakers and food is religion here." Vikas has authored seven books, and he admits that he is continuously writing, even while travelling in the car. He says, "I did not know much English. But to be in the US and to tell the story of my food, I had to learn English. Whether it's movies or books, what they write about our country is only a superficial portrayal. There are many more facets we need to talk about. That compelled me to turn to writing. I never aimed at becoming a writer."
Vikas who was once voted among the Top 50 Sexiest Men Alive list, by a magazine and is known as one of the Hottest Chefs in the world, says, "I think food, which has a sensuous effect on our minds. In any context related to food, I'd be sexy, otherwise I am not really sexy." By his own admission, until four years ago Vikas was so shy, that he didn't even meet Richard Gere during a dinner at a film festival. He says, "I had to change because of survival. I want to go out and tell people — you have stereotyped our nation, but you cannot stereotype our cuisine."
Talking about the fundraiser hosted for Barack Obama, Vikas talks about his love for Gujarat and the food here and he says, "That cooking was a tribute to Gandhi and Gujarat; I did not cook Punjabi food. In fact, whenever I speak to President Obama, there is not one conversation that goes without talking about Gandhi. I can cook very good steaks, yes Americans love steaks. But I instead cooked the Gujarati sheera."
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