Asma Khan Of Darjeeling Express Isn’t Following The Rules

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4.6 • 592 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Today’s guest is Asma Khan, the celebrated chef and restaurateur behind Darjeeling Express in London, and a fierce champion for women everywhere. She joins host Kerry Diamond to talk about her latest cookbook, “Monsoon: Delicious Indian Recipes for Every Day and Season,” a tribute to Indian home cooking and the beauty of seasonal flavors, and her new cooking series on Discovery+, “Secrets of the Curry Kitchen.” They also discuss overcoming adversity, the ways women are held back, and the importance of family recipes. Thank you to Struesli for supporting Radio Cherry Bombe. Subscribe to Cherry Bombe’s print magazine. Visit cherrybombe.com for subscriptions and show transcripts. More on Asma: Instagram, Darjeeling Express, "Monsoon" cookbook More on Kerry: Instagram

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone. You're listening to Radio Cherrybaum, and I'm your host, Carrie Diamond.
0:09.4	I just got back from a week in Ireland with Carrie Gold and had an amazing time.
0:14.3	You could check out my Instagram for some of the food, drink, flowers, and fabulous people from my trip.
0:19.7	We'll even have a special podcast episode coming soon
0:22.1	that I recorded at the famous Ballymalu in County Cork
0:25.5	during their festival of food.
0:28.0	Let's talk about today's show.
0:29.7	My guest is Asma Khan,
0:31.8	the trailblazing chef, restaurateur, cookbook author,
0:34.7	and fierce supporter of women's rights.
0:37.6	Osma is also the star of a brand new cooking series on Discovery Plus called Secrets of the Curry
0:42.8	Kitchen, and she's the author of a new cookbook published this spring, titled Monsoon,
0:48.3	Delicious Indian Recipes for Every Day and Season.
0:51.8	A few other things about Osma.
0:53.3	She has a restaurant in London called
0:55.0	Darjeeling Express. I ate there in November, and if you have the chance, I highly recommend
0:59.7	having lunch or dinner there. And do not skip the chai, even though it takes 20 minutes to brew.
1:05.2	Tell Osma that Cherrybaum sent you. Osma was also featured on a wonderful and moving episode
1:10.1	of the Chef's Table series on Netflix. You should catch that and see Osma was also featured on a wonderful and moving episode of the Chef's Table series on Netflix.
1:12.9	You should catch that and see Osma in action.
1:15.8	Some of you got to hear Osma live at this year's Cherrybaum Jubilee Conference,
1:19.6	and she was one of the most inspiring speakers we have ever had on the Jubilee stage.
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