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Pooja Dhingra, the entrepreneur behind Le15 Patisserie, talks about her new cookbook, The Wholesome Kitchen, and making desserts without butter and sugar!
“In all my 22 years, I had eaten enough pineapple cakes and Dutch truffle pastries to last me a lifetime, but never tried a macaron. That very weekend, I went to a confectionery boutique store, and queued up for 15 minutes to get in. Inside, there were rows of macarons in exquisite colours displayed on tables and in the fridge. I ate one, and I was hooked,” says Dhingra. Even as the concoction of meringue and almonds was melting in her mouth, she knew what she wanted to do for a living: Bring the French confectionery to India.” – Forbes India.
Belonging to a family of food-enthusiasts, Pooja Dhingra was always very interested in baking and whipping up delicious treats in the kitchen. Her skills took the tranformation from amateur to professional when she decided to go and study hospitality instead of law, as she mentions in an interview with Rediff. Her family, too, was extremely supportive of her decisions, and she went off to Le Cordon Bleu in Paris to study baking and even when she finally decided to open her own business.
On the weekly #WomenOnTheMove Twitter chat by Women’s Web, Pooja came on board as a special guest, talking about the myth that healthy is rarely delicious and her new cookbook The Wholesome Kitchen: Recipes to Nourish, Energize and Indulge Your Soul where she has tried to remove the mutual exclusivity of the two concepts.
On her motivations for writing the book, she says:
I decided to start training for the marathon in 2015! I couldn't eat sugar and decided to make treats for myself that were healthy 🙂 https://t.co/dXdn63uwWW — pooja dhingra (@poojadhingraa) August 2, 2017
I decided to start training for the marathon in 2015! I couldn't eat sugar and decided to make treats for myself that were healthy 🙂 https://t.co/dXdn63uwWW
— pooja dhingra (@poojadhingraa) August 2, 2017
Another important reason for her to write about her work is her desire to create recipes using ingredients that are easily available locally.
She then answered questions from Twitterati about food, her new cookbook, and her favourite recipes.
I think for the books it's been about writing easy recipes with simple ingredients that most people can find locally. — pooja dhingra (@poojadhingraa) August 2, 2017
I think for the books it's been about writing easy recipes with simple ingredients that most people can find locally.
Pooja Dhingra then she dropped this gem of an information! Sugar free desserts!
No processed sugar! I've used the sweetness for dates, figs, apples and other fruits 🙂 — pooja dhingra (@poojadhingraa) August 2, 2017
No processed sugar! I've used the sweetness for dates, figs, apples and other fruits 🙂
Talk about doing the impossible, baking without the quintessential ingredients!
Just experimenting with different ingredients! For a baker to bake without butter, sugar, flour and eggs was such a challenge! — pooja dhingra (@poojadhingraa) August 2, 2017
Just experimenting with different ingredients! For a baker to bake without butter, sugar, flour and eggs was such a challenge!
Many readers shared their views on the healthy Vs. delicious notion, and the guilt women feel after indulging themselves to tasty food.
whole wheat pasta tossed in garlic soaked in olive oil with olives, bell peppers and oregano. — Tania's Tales (@KanikaGee) August 2, 2017
whole wheat pasta tossed in garlic soaked in olive oil with olives, bell peppers and oregano.
— Tania's Tales (@KanikaGee) August 2, 2017
Steamed Pohe! — SaraS (@PunyFingers) August 2, 2017
Steamed Pohe!
— SaraS (@PunyFingers) August 2, 2017
I think we are more vocal about it then men. #WomenOnTheMove — Inderpreet (@indywrites) August 2, 2017
I think we are more vocal about it then men. #WomenOnTheMove
— Inderpreet (@indywrites) August 2, 2017
3. women suffer because society dictates what is perfection in terms of body shape & size. We struggle to attain that goal. #WomenontheMove — Sudesna (Sue) Ghosh (@sudesna_ghosh) August 2, 2017
3. women suffer because society dictates what is perfection in terms of body shape & size. We struggle to attain that goal. #WomenontheMove
— Sudesna (Sue) Ghosh (@sudesna_ghosh) August 2, 2017
So I have a recipe called "sneaky cookies" which is a chocolate cookie made with…Doodhi!! — pooja dhingra (@poojadhingraa) August 2, 2017
So I have a recipe called "sneaky cookies" which is a chocolate cookie made with…Doodhi!!
Being an entrepreneur, a full time baker as well as an author, Pooja shares how she manages all the things she does. Wrapping up, she has certainly left me curious enough to go buy a copy of Wholesome Kitchen and bake!
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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