Indian spices can find a place in any cuisine. It's just a matter of opening your mind and palate to new flavors.
If I really can be said to have a personal style, I think it is reflected in my taste for the exotic and the unexpected. I like to create rooms which are essentially traditional - and then add touches of the bizarre and the delicious.
Cinnamon bites and kisses simultaneously.
I like 'I Can't Stand the Rain.' I like it because it has a really oriental feeling to it, an 'oriental taste,' it has an essence of Asia.
I really like gross Chinese things.
I'm half Moroccan and half Indian so I have quite an adventurous taste in food.
Slice Mango - something that, you know, is a phenomenal drink, but mango is not a flavour that is easily liked by many people in the West. People in Latin America like it. But we do a lot of Mango in India.
...it was so rich and exotic I was seduced into taking one bite and then another as I tried to chase the flavors back to their source.