NPR.

When Adnan Durani was a kid growing up in Pakistan, his family was famous for making

this one dish, chicken briani.

My relatives still today make that briani and they do it on Fridays for the whole village.

Adnan wanted to do the same thing, but on an even bigger scale.

So he started this company from his home now in Connecticut.

He makes these high-end, microwavable meals, dishes from all over the world, everything's

halal and antibiotic-free.

But of course, his favorite dish is the chicken briani.

The aroma for it is just seductive.

It's a delicious dish.

Adnan called his company Safron Road.

It's a kind of a play on the Silk Road, the trade route that once went from China to the

West.

The premium spice carried on that road was Safron.

I thought, well, I wanted to do the Safron Road project.

I want to bring people together from different cultures of different fates, celebrating

world cuisines of different cultures.

And the chicken briani really embodies this, along with all his other dishes.

Basmati rice and spices from India, chicken from farms in the US, Singaporean noodles,

Jasmine rice from Thailand.

And because the global supply chain was so efficient, he could source them no sweat, at

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