Episode Details
Back to Episodes
“Turning a wreckage into something sweet,” with Faim's Nadia Parekh
Season 4
Episode 11
Published 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Description
Hosts Tiffany Eslick and Devina Divecha are off to Business Bay to sit down with founder and cake-maker Nadia Parekh. They talk about Nadia's pivot from clinical psychology to food entrepreneur, and the lessons learnt from the closure of Mélange and the launch of Faim.
They also taste three of Nadia's signature cakes: The Quarantine (Chocolate salted caramel), Everybody's Birthday Cake (Chocolate praline and cereal) and the Jaded (Olive Oil, lemon, mascarpone and mixed berries).
Chapters:
0:00 You can't control things outside!
3:31 From clinical psychology to cakes
6:15 Becoming a food entrepreneur
15:11 Pivoting after Mélange
23:23 Behind Faim
27:20 Cake trends
36:23 We taste cake!