Zoharan: Well, I have been a meal for a long time. You know, despite going on hunger strike, for some time, food is really, in many ways, how I see the world and see myself in the world. I think it is one of those things that I have also become so fascinated during my life that the food tells the story of people. This tells the story of the migration. This tells the story and struggle and happiness. I think it is also a beautiful reflection of this city and what is this city, what can it be.
B. A: Can you talk about some food meals?
Zoharan: I have very fond memories to eat Kuku paka (An East African coconut-based chicken dish where meat is grilled before adding to coconut sauce). I think coconut is one of the most obvious examples of the creation of a new culture, especially a mixture of many. Just think about chapati. Chapati In an Indian context, I guess in an original detail, a bread that you use to eat other food. But there is a street food that you eat on your own.
B. A: Chapati in the form of a meal?
Zoharan: Absolutely. It has a lot of taste, and if you are really tight on money, you can only have lunch with two chapis.
B. A: It is famous Uganda Rolex,
Zoharan: No, people about whom I am speaking are big. You know, a rollex without eggs. Rolex is the next frontier. (Laughing)
Chapati is also the fastest for me; You are moving forward, it is sitting there, you just have a chapatti, you have a rollex. I think even though you think about tea in a non-Indian context, milk is often based on milk, not water-based with some milk. What I like about these stories is that they are of migration, migration, stories of influences that are not quite duplicate. In our politics, now, there is a desire to divide and try to create “clean and clear boundaries”. Food makes it impossible because food is the story of people’s interactions in their lives and their journey in different junctions.
B. A: You studied in the main. Was you first?
Zoharan: I was not before, and it was really a cute experience. I loved my professors. Talking about food, I enjoyed food in Breanswick, especially on the campus. But yes, I (my ethnic identity) was not used to be my primary identity.
B. A: Can you say someone else?
Zoharan: Growing in New York City, you were not unique on the basis of you being a colorful person. then in [Maine]All this has been brought to the fore.
B. A: Was it difficult for you?
Zoharan: I don’t think so. I was very consumed by this meaning of being a minority forever. If I am in India, I am a Muslim. If I am in the city of New York, I am in all these things. Finally, however, my father told me, and what has been with me is that being a minority means to see the truth of a place with everyone who comes with it.
