What do you do once you have already found yourself? You look for something new. But for Rajat Mendhi, 39, the passion for cooking was kindled at a tender age. "I think it was a Tarla Dalal cookbook," he recalls. For 13 years, Mendhi worked in the advertising industry until he finally took the plunge in January this year, to dedicate all his time to food. "I still love advertising and the way it enables you to make something out of nothing, but I had already achieved everything that I wanted to in that space. Also, when there's a fire inside you, it keeps burning," Mendhi says, talking about his transition from a corporate wiz to discovering himself once again as a compulsive cook.

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