Shazia Khans MasterChef journey
cooking they wanted to see my skills so
we were a lot at a limited time
and um like you know a limited battery
a specific time given and you know you
had cameras shooting at you
so barely or not here remember the
camera shooting at me because i was so
busy and embrassed with my dish i
remember i made my son’s favorite recipe
was with chicken cheese bombs
and you know i barely noticed the
cameras around here very comfortably
looking
i presented my dish and then they ended
pretty satisfactory
so i got back to bangalore and after a
few days i got a call
that i have been selected among the top
100 in the country
so they said uh would you be able to
come for further auditions to mumbai
and if i was selected further they told
me that it would require me to stay for
about four or five months in mumbai
while the show was on this was stressful
i had to convince my family about it so
i discussed more with my husband
and my father-in-law they were very
supportive
but kind of hesitant though i come from
a considerable liberal family
it did not require me to go out there or
rather let him put it i did not have any
scope to go out there and achieve
something so publicly
but i managed to convince them you know
telling them i’ll carry myself very well
and you know i don’t know if
i’d make it to the next round so let me
give it a shot let me go
and they said okay and after many rounds
i was selected among the top 50 in the
country when the show started
so i took each step as it came and made
it to the top 12 position
every time i enter the masterchef
kitchen i told myself one thing
like you know don’t expect anything just
give it your best shot be yourself
and have a blast because it was smoking
and this is what i love
doing so that’s what i did my journey
from being one among the thousands
to reaching the first runner-up position
was a thrilling one
it was a roller coaster ride and
you know a journey of self-discovery
a life-altering experience there was so
much of learning that happened so much
of growth
and the opportunity to being trained
under some of the world’s famous chefs
for five months i did miss my family but
i made friends for a lifetime
you know there were times there were
moments that still make me laugh
we figured out that whenever you had
five six cameras rushing to your station
you have definitely moved up something
and you know either your food is burning
or you’ve done it something wrong
and we learned the art how to attacking
the judges who would come to mentally
grind up
kind us all i would do is just smile at
them and tell them that i’ll fix it and
finally i think they gave up hope on
kind of trying to
mentally harass me so
yeah so follow the mastership
i got a lot of love and recognition
and i kind of channel this appreciation
into doing more
exploring more into the culinary world
and being busy i traveled
across the country and the world hosting
master classes
doing television shows a lot of youtube
content brand associations
and much more
it was all about just about the focus in
my life had just become cooking
moving on i
kind of told myself that i was looking
for an identity
and i have found it my own behalf that i
wanted
and my family is super proud of it now
i’m so elated when my sons introduced me
to their friends
and says you know she’s my mom she’s
shazia you know master chef
she’s that so imagine how happy i feel
to share my joy of cooking i
what culminated was a cookbook what’s on
the menu the recipes featured in this
book
are very very close to my heart and
loved
punished by my loved ones
since my master classes were very
popular i thought that i must
start a culinary school and then the
cooking studio came into existence
which boasts kind of state of art
infrastructure
and equipment my vision was to bring
people together from all walks of
life who are who share a common joy of
cooking and who are passionate about it
we start we started a program where we
train underprivileged girls
who have great potential in being chefs
and kind of this also becomes like a
place in itself where they get
respectable jobs
i started my own production house
charges on productions
which uh expertise in uh creating
cookery show content and youtube’s
content for famous brands i wanted to
continue sharing my joy
for cooking and i loved cooking for
people so i started my own cafe called
the studio cafe
where the menu is very carefully created
and we
need to prepare dishes with a lot of
love and care
and to anyone who walks in will get a
taste of whom away from home and yet
apparently
so all this and much more is still in
the list
moving on i would just like to say
whenever
someone calls me their role model i take
it to heart
and drive out to do more and try to help
me to do more and more
there was this young girl who used to
watch chef sanji for the poor show
and kind of watch him create magic on tv
and i would actually do this
trust me i would actually do this i
would go back to my kitchen
secretly and enact him with his dialogue
in my own style acting as if i was doing
my own show
and many years later i did a show for
his channel so now who says that dreams
don’t turn into a reality
right many people say stop dreaming face
reality
wake up but i will tell you keep
dreaming and make that a reality
i have created my own my own identity
from being just known as my father’s
daughter
my husband’s wife my children’s mother
as my journey goes on
i just stay i call myself still work in
progress
i take life whatever it gives to me
and work towards learning more and more
every day
many people ask me that you know what is
the secret of your success
are there any tips you have to make it
to the top in masterchef please train us
give us a training program on how you
make it from the top
so i just tell them one thing believe in
your dreams
value yourself because if you don’t
value yourself nobody will
and also very importantly
explore your passion passion is
something
that became my identity people know me
as master chef shazia khan
all right so believe in that passion
imagine
every day i go to work and i’m so happy
and excited because it’s my passion i’m
not forced to do anything
but it’s just my passion the very fact
that i’m standing here
and sharing my story with you says it
all
so life is not about finding yourself
my dear children it’s about creating
yourself so go ahead and