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Riz Ahmed says French cuisine is overhyped because cooking a steak doesn't compare to the complexity of South Asian food “I do feel that French cuisine is, I guess, a little bit overhyped” “It's relatively simpler things that are done executing very well and with care” “Coming from a background where it's about curries slow cooked, intense layering of a dish like nihari, the amount of spices and things going into it, it's just incredible. The flavor profile and the range of things, the time it takes...” “Whereas, not being funny, but a steak, it's a steak” “Like you get the thing, you put it on and the trick is like, oh, 28 seconds or 33, and it's like boom”

My ancestors worked as indentured labourers under the British Empire in Mauritius in the 1800s. Yes it was brutal and harsh. And it gave my ancestors the chance to earn a wage, acquire property, receive an education and benefit from healthcare- all possible thanks to the British Empire. We cannot keep teaching our young people a one-sided view of history. I trace the history in my book, ‘Patriot: Empire, betrayal and hope’.