The key ingredient: A Wknd interview with Madhur Jaffrey

At 89, the actor and cookbook writer is still cooking, acting, rapping. She just became the first South Asian to win the James Beard Lifetime Achievement Award.

Madhur Jaffrey, 89, insists she’s not actually a cook; just an actor playing the part.

She never trained as a chef, doesn’t chop her onions evenly, only cooks what a homemaker would for her family. (What she did study, she points out, is acting; she spent years on TV, writing, acting and presenting.)

Yet, this year, she became the first person of South Asian origin to win the prestigious James Beard Lifetime Achievement Award. This comes a year after the