Asma Khan: Stop Calling it Curry | What Now? with Trevor Noah

This week, famed chef and author Asma Khan joins Trevor and Eugene for a conversation that shreds traditional fine-dining elitism to pieces.

The trio discusses Asma’s upbringing in India, the frustration of over-complicated modern technology, and how she discovered her passion for cooking through pure homesickness after moving to England.

Between tales of hitting cheating childhood friends with cricket bats and surviving Cambridge’s soul-crushingly bad food, Asma gets real about how food is truly about identity, storytelling, and dismantling imperialist garbage.

What's one meal that instantly takes you back to a memory?

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00:00 - Trevor's hilarious cooking confession
02:00 - Trevor vs. his "smart" stove
09:40 - Meet Asma Khan
15:30 - Growing up feeling unwanted
23:30 - Childhood, resilience & survival
42:30 - Cricket, courage & confidence
55:00 - How food became her identity
1:06:00 - Food, colonialism & injustice
1:19:00 - Why cooking is about people
1:27:00 - Why Michelin culture is broken
1:40:00 - There is no such thing as "curry"
1:55:00 - The toxic culture inside professional kitchens
2:07:00 - The legacy Asma Khan wants to leave