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  • Southern Cast Iron

    Asha Gomez

    Oct 20, 2020 6 minutes
    BY DANIEL DUBUISSON

    What is the South to you? Is it homestyle comfort foods? Is it the famous hospitality? To chef and cookbook author Asha Gomez, it’s all that and more. It’s home, and it has been for the last 20 years. It’s where she decided to settle and raise a family after immigrating to the United States from southern India more than three decades ago. It’s where she planted her roots. However, the region she calls home has changed from how it was many years ago. The events of the past year have especially brought about new ideas, and for Asha that means there has never been a more interesting time to be a chef in the South.

    The recent socially and politically charged movements that have swept across our global society have encouraged many minority chefs like Asha—especially those in the South—to step into new roles within the communities they serve. For Asha, she’s using this opportunity to introduce people to cultures and cuisine

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