Hi, everyone's listening to Radio Cherrybaum and I'm

Assistant Producer, Jenna Sadoo,

coming to you from San Francisco. Each week we feature interviews with the coolest culinary

personalities around. If you're wondering where our usual host, Carrie Diamond is, she

unfortunately came down with laryngitis and totally lost her voice, so I'm filling in.

DM carries some virtual soup and get well soon vibes.

Today's episode features Chef Manit Chohan, a judge on Food Networks Chopped, Cookbook Author, and Nashville Restrator.

Manit stopped by Newstand Studios at Rockefeller Center to chat with Carrie all about

her culinary journey, what to eat at her restaurants, to chat with Carrie all about her culinary journey,

what to eat at her restaurants, her brewery business, and her favorite holiday Devali,

which is the Festival of Lights celebrated by many around the world, including my family.

For those of you celebrating, happy the volley. Stay tuned for their conversation.

A little housekeeping, our second annual Cooks and Books

Festival is taking place at Ace Hotel Brooklyn the weekend of November 5th and 6th. Join us for talks,

panels and demos with amazing authors, chefs and bakers, many of whom you've heard here on Cherrybaum

like Ruth Reichel, Tanya Holland, Hetty McKinnon, and Aaron French of The Lost Kitchen.

Tickets in all access passes are now on sale at Cherrybom.com. The Cooks and Books Festival is presented

by our friends at Carriegold. Now, here's today's interview. Minichohan, welcome to Radio Cherry Bomb.

Thank you. I'm so excited to be here. I am so excited that you're here. It has been a really long time since we've seen each other. Too long. Too long. We have to do an interview to catch up with each other. But hey, we get two things done. We catch up with each other. We bank an interview. All good. All good. I know you're a big multitasker. Yes, I am. Yes. I try and fail. Like today was a big multitasking fail, but I'm not going to bore everybody with that. I don't think I have seen you since we did our book launch. Oh, no, wait. I saw you at the Malai ice cream pop-up. Yes. So I have seen you. Yes.

But I haven't seen you in Nashville, maybe since our cookbook launch, the Cherrybong cookbook launch. Yeah, that was the last time. And that was five years ago because it's the five-year anniversary for our book. Five years. Yes. Time flies. Speaking of Nashville, how are things in Nashville? Things in Nashville are going good and crazy.

The funny part about Nashville is that even when you were there, you must have seen the growth.

And the growth hasn't stopped.

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