Nish Kumar

Padma Kutty.

Yeah.

Everyone was so obsessed with her food.

But yeah, my mum is also a really brilliant cook.

We love to eat a big biryani.

It's like the Indian rice dish.

It sort of has variations across India and Indian communities and actually Indian and Arab communities get very territorial about whose biryani is the best biryani.

Um,

And so they would definitely make like a big biryani.

When I was a kid, my grandmother would marinate tandoori chicken and then we'd cook that on the barbecue.

And she'd make a kind of homemade tandoori chicken recipe, you know, that kind of really like vivid red.

And she would marinate that overnight and then stick it on the barbecue.

And so that was a big thing.

We get a lot of kebabs and stuff.

Like there was a guy, there was a pub in Leicester where my grandparents lived where the guy would be barbecuing kebabs in like a sort of brick shack out the back of the pub.

That I assume was some sort of licensing dodge.

Sheet kebab.

Really great.

Right.

So that was like our big...