Krish Ashok | The Tale of a Curry: A 2.7 Billion Year Story of a Dish | Talks at Google
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Published 2021-10-23
"Masala Lab" explores the science of Indian cooking with the aim of making the reader a better cook and turning the kitchen into a joyful, creative playground for culinary experimentation. It uses simple, first-principles, middle-school level science explanations and hand-drawn illustrations to break down what happens in the Indian kitchen. It also recommends algorithms and metamodels for common dish types and regional Indian sub-cuisines.
Krish Ashok is the Global Head – Digital Workplace for Tata Consultancy Services, helping Fortune 1000 companies reimagine the future of work, a role that is at the intersection of technology, design and culture. He is a trained Indian classical violinist who also plays the cello, electric guitar, composes and produces music, available on all major streaming platforms. A particularly popular playlist is Sanskrit Rock, where he translates and adapts popular heavy metal and classic rock songs into Sanskrit. Ashok is also a regular columnist on food, science, and culture for publications such as Mint, The Hindu, Scroll and BuzzFeed.
To learn more about Krish, please visit krishashok.me/.
Get the book here: goo.gle/3zDvyk7.
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All Comments (20)
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If Krish was a science teacher, I would have turned a biologist. Amazing stuff! Children would love reading stuff like this!
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An out-of -box thinker who examines what humankind has been doing for centuries inside the box and why it works.
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great talk, made a lot of bulbs light up in my mind
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Very interesting, l learned lot of things. Thanks
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Wow this is amazing stuff, keep at it! Also the haters in the comments are fuckin stupid, this man is producing amazing content.
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Very interesting and informative 👌👌
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Nyc sir
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We don’t put all things at once (only happens with novices who’ve never been taught by moms and grandmas). Lots of this already done over hundreds of years by people in all parts of India…
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Looks interesting
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25:47 convection...???
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if dogs were smarter they would simply eat us
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Recipe for the best chicken curry: 1) start with one teaspoon of single celled organisms 2) leave at room temperature for 3 billion years 3) serve with rice
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Cooking with chicken fat, “ the best fat in the world”? Is this even plausible? Or even healthy?
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42:08 eat local is good, even if avocados are grown locally. And you don't advocate on how avocado is grown, which you have the beautiful lie that 'it needs tremendous of water'. Avocados plants/trees will wither out if too much water is provided. Eating local food doesn't mean only on these imported food producing being localised, but what was orginally local. Even if localised, it would have adapted to the locality and yield as appropriate. BS is BS, these kind of faults you say will stop the real ones being accepted questioning the authenticity. If you have not done enough research or have gained substantial knowledge, you (or anyone for that matter) should stop from becoming an advocate of it.
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Krish Ashok has given 2.1 billion stories to simply show off his science knowledge. Period. It has nothing to do with 99.99999 percent of people who cook day in and day out. Sorry, this 74 year old chef is not impressed.
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2.7 billion years ? Earth was new and there were not even any air breathing creatures on the planet back then. Even land plants would not evolve for another 2 billion plus years. So no curry plants ! I am just at the beginning of the video so maybe this is a joke or tongue in cheek. I am watching out of curiosity. I am not even a huge fan of chicken curry. It's ok sometimes.
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Your method and theory in cooking and explaining nutrition are wacko, far strayed from Human Hygiene and Human Biology
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Garbage. There is no such thing in Indian food called curry. Curry comes from Scotland. There is also no such thing as an "Indian Classical Violin" (mentioned in the description). I can only presume they mean a Sarangi - an ancient instrument that predates the European Dark Ages. If you are going to present for Google, at least make an effort and there's no need to apologise for your history or culture "Krish".
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How do we get you contact ID, Want to invite you for a webseminar organized by DYPI univ
