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I'm not one of those chefs who spends time taking pictures of food.

I'm with you.

I hate it when I take time to prepare something delicious or I'm at a restaurant where I've been really looking forward to eating and the food finally arrives and I'm really hungry and then I'm like, ah, I should probably take a picture of this for Instagram. Then by the time, I'm like, ah, screw it. I'm just going to eat. I'm, and I'm sure that you remember as well the time when, you know, people never took photographs of food. We didn't have mobile phones with cameras in it.

Right. And I, maybe I'm just kind of old-fashioned, but I hanker for that time of innocence,

where it was you photographed in your memory. Yeah. Why do you prefer that? I think that,

at least for me, I think you should eat with all your senses. I would rather just remember how it tasted than just have this picture on my phone. So I take pictures of my cat

because I love my cat. And that's it.

This is the Sporkful.

It's not for foodies.

It's for eaters.

I'm Dan Pashman.

Each week on our show, we obsess about food to learn more about people.

Quick reminder that next week, we are doing our first New York area live show in nearly two years. March 19th at the battlehouse in Brooklyn. My guest will be cookbook author Kenji Lopez-Alt and comedy

legend Judy Gold will discuss the state of the bagel in America today. Is there a bagel asance

coming? That's the term I just made up, but you know, a renaissance for bagels. Judy was cooking

during the recent blizzard.

She shared a hilarious video with her wife where things really went off the rails. We'll talk about that. We got a lot to cover. It's going to be a ton of fun. Next Thursday, the 19th in Brooklyn, tickets and details at sporkful.com slash live. All right, let's get into it. The London restaurant Darjeeling Express is the place to go if you want an outstanding mutton kebab. But it's also a great place to spot celebrities. Kiera Knightley and Padma Lakshmi have dined there. Paul Rudd visited multiple times in one month. And last year, the restaurant hosted King Charles and Queen Camilla for a charity event. You've heard of them, right? But the chef behind this celebrity hotspot has no formal culinary training. Osma Khan started her cooking

career hosting secret supper clubs in her apartment when her husband was traveling for work. Now she

staffed her restaurant with women who also didn't go to culinary school, who learned to cook as

housewives, nannies, and housekeepers.

Today, Asma is a regular on British cooking shows and was featured in the Netflix show, Chef's Table.

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