I am not a professional chef. As a male, growing up in a typical Bangladeshi family I could barely boil an egg. Fast forward to grad school in the US and a severe homesickness for comfort foods, I armed myself with famous Bangladeshi educator and cookbook author Siddiqa Kabir's book and gave the spoon a whirl, so to speak. Yes, my PhD in CS and a high functioning job nevertheless, cooking remains my passion and I knew I had made it when my own mother conceded that I cook better than her.
