About

My Kind of Masala

There’s just something about Indian food I never get enough of— deep spices and flavors that wrap around your senses... oooh yes, please!

After trying every other Indian restaurant in Berlin, I found myself craving something beyond the usual menu.

While browsing for Indian cookbooks, I came across an over 100-year-old handwritten collection of recipes from an Indian family on eBay. The pages were delicate and yellowed, written in Hindi — and I had to have it. I ran them through a translation app, started cooking ...and WOW!!! The combination of flavors totally blew me away. They were unlike anything I’d ever tasted. That’s when I realized I’d barely scratched the surface of this cuisine.

It was incredibly exciting to cook dishes I couldn’t find anywhere online — maybe even recipes that hadn’t been cooked in ages — using ingredients I’d never even heard of. Some things weren’t easy to find in Germany, and some parts of the collection were hard to read, so I started swapping and adapting. That’s how I learned to put my own twist on traditional old Indian recipes.

These days, I cook up my own blends — often bringing together Western food culture and Indian flavors. Sometimes rooted in traditional dishes, sometimes just inspired by the spices. Playful combos and fresh little surprises that come together as I go. All led by curiosity and love for both worlds.

I also enjoy exploring the history behind traditional dishes and sharing the stories that come with them. Some of my favorites go back thousands of years — and somehow, they’re still alive, still evolving, still being shared.