A taste for success: Chef Sanjeev Kapoor on TV, restaurants, business

A trailblazer, Sanjeev Kapoor tells Akshara Srivastava about reinventing himself in the kitchen

“There is only one way to live life: you have to keep reinventing yourself,” Sanjeev Kapoor, one of India’s first celebrity chefs, tells me as we sit down for lunch on a Wednesday. It is hot and muggy in Delhi where I am, while across the screen in Mumbai, it is raining cats and dogs.

In front of Kapoor is a plate of egg rice, some stir-fried chicken in black bean sauce, with a side of stir-fried French beans and shiitake mushroom, ordered from Yauatcha in Bandra Kurla Complex (or BKC) – which, I was told, was the best Asian