Mumbai: Celebrated chef Sanjeev Kapoor urges embracing AI in the kitchen, viewing technology as an ally rather than a threat.
In an IANS exclusive, Kapoor said: "Whether it is AI or any other technology, we always need to adapt to it, and we have - it may be the internet era or the AI. There is always going to be something new, and we will have to move forward along with it. So we should not be scared of the new technology, we should try to work along with it."
Intriguingly, Hansal Mehta—one of the directors behind Kapoor's iconic "Khana Khazana" show—is now helming India's first AI-powered cooking series, "Khana Dil Se".
Mehta, framing food as memory, explained: "The use of AI will not just be as a visual and imagination tool, but as a collaborator in the storytelling itself. 'Khana Dil Se' reclaims food as a living cultural heritage."
He elaborated on cooking's depth: "When you cook something from another culture, you are not just following a recipe, you are stepping into a piece of someone else’s life. A recipe carries within it an entire history: of land, of migration, of a grandmother’s hands. These are probably humanity’s most durable cultural documents, passed down through generations, across borders, surviving when almost nothing else does. That’s what makes food such an honest way to look at people and who they really are."
(Inputs from IANS)