Welcome Jiten! My current favourite cookbook is actually The Food Lab!
I might have a couple of recipes from my mum that you might like - she is hardcore about Hyderabadi mughlai food. On Sun, 24 Feb 2019, 01:30 Jitendra Vaidya, <jitendra.vai...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > Geetanjali's intro email reminded me that I have not sent mine, and so here > is a quick email about me. > > I grew up in Aurangabad (Maharashtra), went to college in Bombay and moved > to the San Francisco bay area in early nineties. I am married, have two > kids and a pet cat. > > For most of my career I have been a backend infrastructure engineer and > manager. But fun fact: I have also written an Android app that saw over > 100,000 downloads. I also did a short stint at the USDS (United States > Digital Service) in Washington DC. I am now the CEO of PlanetScale ( > http://planetscale.com), a company I founded in early 2018. Our goal is to > build a scalable multi-cloud transactional database-as-a-service based on > the open source project Vitess (http://vitess.io). > > I love to read. My all-time favorite prose author is probably Milan > Kundera. I also end up reading a lot of science fiction: in the last year I > have read Cory Doctorow, Liu Cixin and Neal Stephenson. Vernor Vinge is an > all-time favorite. > > I also like to cook and make cocktails. The current cookbook I am browsing > and trying out recipes from is Asma Said Khan's "Asma's Indian Kitchen: > Home-cooked food brought to you by Darjeeling Express". The cocktail I like > to make and serve the most is Vesper Martini which I make with Gin, Vodka, > Dolin's Dry Vermouth and Cocchi Americano. > > Thank you Udhay for inviting me and look forward to stimulating > discussions. > > -Jiten >
