Growing up in the D.C. area, Sahil Rahman and Rahul Vinod had the idea to open an Indian fast-casual restaurant. They cofounded a fast-casual concept, Rasa.

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Festivals were linked to seasonal food and produce - harvest festival, spring festival. Food for me is deeply spiritual. It's linked to my identity, my ethnicity, who I am.

"I did not train to cook," Jaffrey said. "When I left home in India, I couldn't cook." She was in her 20s, living in London and focused on her acting aspirations at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts.

December is the time for “giving,” and all that stuff, but more importantly, it’s the only time of year you’re fully entitled to enjoy sweets with delirious abandon. Cookies, pies, cakes ...