In this week’s digital extra, Mala Patel talks about the convenience of being able to do her cooking classes out of the Wilbraham Inn. Patel and her husband purchased the Inn over a decade ago, giving her the perfect home for her true passion: teaching others about authentic Indian cuisine.
Want to know more about Mala’s Indian Cooking Class? Watch our full feature about the classes.
Read the full transcript:
Mala Patel, Mala’s Indian Cooking Class: This business, when you entered into the Wilbraham Inn, we bought this business and then I thought of — I used to do a lot of classes. I used to travel to do classes.
And when I bought this business, that was my first thing. I thought, “Okay, I’m going to now make this my cooking class location.”
You know, and that’s why you see this transition that you’re coming into a hotel and then you walk inside, and you see, “Oh, there’s a cooking class!”
And I designed to do this. You know, I designed this place to be able to do all my classes here, now.
Indian food is unique, very delicious. I mean, I’m not saying delicious because I am Indian and I cook Indian food, but Indian food is really delicious. So, if once — if someone has tasted Indian food, even at a restaurant or somewhere, it just — it just is very addicting. People would just want to have more and more of it.
And that’s how I get people here, because now they’ve had some recipes, some food there, and now they want to learn that.
