[fullwidth background_color=”#ffffff” background_image=”” background_parallax=”none” enable_mobile=”no” parallax_speed=”0.3″ background_repeat=”no-repeat” background_position=”left top” video_url=”” video_aspect_ratio=”16:9″ video_webm=”” video_mp4=”” video_ogv=”” video_preview_image=”” overlay_color=”” overlay_opacity=”0.5″ video_mute=”yes” video_loop=”yes” fade=”no” border_size=”0px” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” padding_top=”30px” padding_bottom=”30px” padding_left=”” padding_right=”” hundred_percent=”yes” equal_height_columns=”no” hide_on_mobile=”no” menu_anchor=”” class=”” id=””][two_third last=”no” spacing=”yes” center_content=”no” hide_on_mobile=”no” background_color=”” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” background_position=”left top” hover_type=”none” link=”” border_position=”all” border_size=”0px” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” padding=”0″ margin_top=”0″ margin_bottom=”0″ animation_type=”0″ animation_direction=”down” animation_speed=”0.1″ animation_offset=”” class=”” id=””][fusion_text]Born and raised in Abu Dhabi, I’ve been cooking independently since the age of 8 years. My culinary affair began with sneaking cookbooks in between school textbooks and quietly whizzing cupcake batters in the balcony in the middle of the night after everyone would be asleep. I didn’t seek any professional chef training but only self-teaching; trials, errors, hits, misses, practice and passion, nothing else.[/fusion_text][fusion_text]In 2010, I moved to America for college and graduated in Business Finance four years later. Through the years, cooking and baking had been a huge part of me, although I realized only after four years of studying finance that I want to make food my career. Very soon I flew down to India and was found queued up in the audition lines for MasterChef India Season 4 and later the winner of the season. MasterChef India marked the beginning of my real-world culinary journey.[/fusion_text][fusion_text]Apart from my favorite celebrity chefs, my greatest culinary inspiration has been my mother who is a great cook but not a baker. My mother never baking a cake in my childhood is probably the reason why I find curiosity in the art of creating pastry today. Additionally, being a vegetarian and having won the world’s first vegetarian MasterChef, I undoubtedly enjoy putting my own spin on vegetarian cooking.
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[/imageframe][/two_fifth][three_fifth last=”yes” spacing=”yes” center_content=”no” hide_on_mobile=”no” background_color=”” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” background_position=”left top” hover_type=”none” link=”” border_position=”all” border_size=”0px” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” padding=”0″ margin_top=”0″ margin_bottom=”0″ animation_type=”0″ animation_direction=”down” animation_speed=”0.1″ animation_offset=”” class=”” id=””][fusion_text]The MasterChef journey has taught me more than I had ever imagined. MasterChef as a culinary competition had constantly encouraged us to imagine and create the non-existent, which I’m driven to follow even today. I feel honored to be given this platform through which I can continue to share my love for cooking and hopefully inspire the generations to come.[/fusion_text][fusion_text]While a variety of events continue to come and go, my focus remains on the ultimate goal which is to open a restaurant. I never dreamt of being a chef or even a MasterChef. But being a successful restaurateur is what I have always dreamt of, still do and will do until it comes alive.[/fusion_text][/three_fifth][/fullwidth]