I am very much influenced by Chef Ranveer Brar and his style. I really like the way he cooks every dish with broad smile and the way he delivers his dialogues and entertain his audience. It makes the food look and sound beautiful. I try to inculcate his dialogue delivery sometimes and I even remember few of his dialogues by heart. “Fir mat kehna Sabhya ne bataya ku nahi”
1. Tell us more about your background and journey.
Hello! I am Sabhya Gupta and I have just turned 7. I am from Jaipur studying in Grade 2 at Jayshree Periwal International School Jaipur.
My Mumma tells me that kitchen utensils were few of the first toys I started playing with when I was as young as 8-9 months old. She also tells me that I was so fond of pressure cooker whistles that I used to whistle exactly like a pressure cooker and she even got confused a few times as if she actually left something on the stove. As I grew up, I started playing with pretend and play cooking toys and gradually to fireless cooking and now to actual cooking.
Apart from cooking, I am an equally focused on my studies and have won many awards for dance, drama, poem recitation, and storytelling at interschool level. My teachers always support me and I am the head boy of Junior wing in my School.
2. What led to your interest in cooking and starting your very own page?
Like I said, I have been fond of cooking from the very beginning, I used to love watching my Mumma cook and this has always fascinated me and probably I have inculcated this hobby from my Mumma. I used to enjoy stirring liquids, beating coffee, and whisking batter, and transferring things from one pan to another.
This gradually developed my interest and never realized how slowly I got into actual cooking. My Mumma who used to record my cooking and storytelling videos and after the pandemic came, she probably thought of sharing them on internet. It was during pandemic when she started a dedicated page for sharing my videos.
3. How did your first cooking video get made and what was the dish?
During 1st lockdown, some contest came up where kids had to cook anything and I made mug cake. I got a lot of appreciation and that’s how it all started on Instagram.
4. What type of food do you enjoy making? Is there a dish you particularly associate yourself with?
Though I enjoy cooking everything that I can, I specifically love cooking when I have to fry something. I enjoy the process of adding something to hot oil and watch how it gets cooked.
I love Jalebis since I was too young and I used to enjoy watching Jalebis being made at a sweet shop near my home. I used to closely watch how the guy making Jalebis used to put the batter using a cone in hot ghee and how it would swell up quickly and then transferring them to sugar syrup. I loved the art and probably the curiosity to do these things myself have made me develop my interest.
5. What is your best dish and why? What are your favorite ingredients to cook with?
My best dish is ‘Namakpaare’. This is the first dish that I did as a festive cooking. I learnt this recipe from my Dadima on Diwali last year. I liked the process of making a mountain of the flour and then making a hole with my finger in it to look like a volcano and pouring ghee into it and then preparing the dough with my hands.
6. What do you think makes Indian cuisine different from other cuisines in the world?
I think we Indians use variety of spices and ghee to cook our food. Spices make the food really tasty and ‘jo khana banate time khushboo ati h, I just love it’
7. What professional chefs have influenced your work, and how do you incorporate their techniques into your cooking?
I am very much influenced by Chef Ranveer Brar and his style. I really like the way he cooks every dish with broad smile and the way he delivers his dialogues and entertain his audience. It makes the food look and sound beautiful. I try to inculcate his dialogue delivery sometimes and I even remember few of his dialogues by heart. “Fir mat kehna Sabhya ne bataya ku nahi”
8. In a world filled with gender stereotypes, how does it feel to be a young little chef dabbling in cooking and, the best part, excelling in it?
It feels great when people on social media and in person praise me for whatever I am and how my Mumma is raising me and allowing me to continue my interest. Mujhe nahi pta sirf girls hi cook karti hain, Mumma says that World k best chefs male h. Including my favourite Ranveer Brar.
9. How do you think the world perceives kid chefs differently from adult chefs?
I think this world is treating and praising me well! I have no complaints.
10. Any tips for other aspiring little chefs?
Khana hmesha smile k sath banana, ye main nahi meri Mumma kehti h. Main aisa hi karta hu, ap bhi aisa hi karo.
11. 3 quick Sabhya's cooking tips:
- Ghee dabake k daalna
- Dahi ki Sabzi ho continuously stir karna
- Like Ranveer uncle says, Cook karte time hmesha muskurahat rakhna, warna khana kaise muskurayega !!
Bio-
Sabhya Gupta, budding chef from Jaipur and one of the youngest too, has just turned 7.
He is passionate about cooking and he is inspiring over a hundred thousand of followers through his Instagram page "mymom_taughtmethis". He is a student in Grade 2 at Jayshree Periwal International School, Jaipur. Not just cooking, he is also a brilliant student and is the Head Boy of the Junior Wing in his school. He has huge interest in dance, drama, and music. He has won several accolades in storytelling, drama, and dance at interschool level.
Sabhya's idol, his mother Dr. Ruchika Gupta is a Doctor (Cardiologist) and his father Anil Gupta is a businessman.
Interviewed By - Nimisha Dutta
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