a global chef with a desi heart chef ajay chopras new cookbook the big daddy chef was released recently from starters to main courses to desserts the book has various recipes for these dishes that one can make at their home previously chef ajay chopra has hosted shows like masterchef india he is also a restaurant consultant and managing director at zion hospitality in this interview he tells us more about his new cookbook his learnings as a debut and selfpublished author how chef vikas khanna inspired him and more excerpts1620the big daddy chef chef ajay chopra on his debut cookbook learnings as a writer and more1 what inspired you to write this bookthe title of the book is the big daddy chef cookbook when i started talking about the big daddys concept people said you are the big daddy chef and i was like no you are the big daddy chef the whole idea is that i totally believe that daddies play a prominent place in the family but somewhere it is just that daddies are so busy out there getting money making fame for themselves or just being busy in what they are doing while there is a family that really needs the daddy touch although we are there in physical form with our families but most of the families are either breaking apart or are emotionally disturbed because actual love is spelt as time and not love i think time is being scarce in everybodys hands these days so that is the basis of my book and whats a better way of being closer to your family than to cook so i got the feedback from dads that hey i dont know how to cook so i said okay ill teach you how to cook so we first started a video series called the big daddy chef on my youtube channel but then some people said it is too difficult to go online and search for your dishes and so i decided to come out with this cookbook with all restaurantstyle recipes all you have to do is turn to any recipe from the book and cook it will excite your kids bring your family together you can also involve your kids in he cooking which will build the comrade between the parents and children and it brings the family closer a lot of people say a family that cooks together stays together those who eat together stay together this is the concept of the big daddy chef cookbook2 how long did it take ou to pen the bookwell it was a pandemic project i started towards the end of may 2020 and it took me around three months i saw a lot of people cooking at home and i thought this is an opportunity where i can probably start an ebook when the ebook was ready in 2021 i wanted to launch it on my birthday on the 8th of february then somebody gave me an