Drudgery has its own role to pay in inspiration. The commode has long been a vibrant place for brainstorming with the self. Or, Mumbai's stagnating traffic that is inversely proportional to the pace of life in the city. "You never know what clicks," you'll often hear people say.

Something similar happened to city pastry chef Pooja Dhingra. "I began listening to podcasts when I was learning French and then I got hooked. I used to listen to them while stuck in traffic, etc," she tells us. When she realised there weren't enough podcasts from India and more so about food, it became fodder for Dhingra's latest venture, which she has been working on since this May. In No Sugar Coat, the "macaron queen" is in conversation with luminaries from the industry, including Thomas Zacharias, Gary Mehigan, Garima Arora, Prateek Sadhu and Kelvin Cheung among others.