 Welcome to Hard Talk from the BBC World Service with me, Steven Sacker. My guest today comes from a privileged background, has a doctorate in law, and yet defied expectations by becoming a chef, or as she puts it, a simple cook. Asma Khan undoubtedly has a rebellious streak. Raised in Calcutta, in a family able to trace its roots to generations of Muslim warrior princes, she left India as a young woman following her academic husband to England.