Stuffed Crust Pizza
In 2021, the last Pizza Hut in Manhattan shut its doors. It was in Times Square. New York's armpit. My friend Wei and I used to meet there to enjoy a stuffed crust. With jalapenos and pepperoni. Half and Half. Wei and I met in 1999, when I moved to
Where To Start Learning Tamil
3 years ago, I couldn’t speak a full sentence in Tamil. Today, I can hold 45 minute conversations with native speakers. If I hadn’t found The Tamil Channel (Sabtha) on Youtube, my mother tongue would have died with me. A question I often get is “Janahan, where do
Detroit: Easiest Pizza To Make
Have you wanted to make pizza but worry it's too much work? For 15 years, I’ve been making pizza from scratch. For 13.5 years, those pizzas were mediocre. In the last 1.5 years, I purchased all five of the pizza guides from Notorious PIE. Those guides transformed
Kill Your Culture
Or live it. There is no in-between. I didn’t realize this until I left Maryland, where I grew up, in 2012. I missed my parent’s goat curry. The symphony of spices, aromatics, and tender meat that falls to pieces between my teeth. I couldn’t buy it. There
Lessons I Learned From Going Broke
We always hear about founders risking it all to go after their dreams. The Zuckerbergs of the world. The Bezos’s. These stories dominate the discourse. We never hear about the Janahan’s of the world - risking it all. And losing it all. In June 2015, I quit my
Coconut Ginger Shrimp Curry
I learned this from my Amma. By measuring out the oil and coconut milk ahead of time, it's possible to make a high protein, lower calorie version of this curry.. This is a common strategy I employ with fats to control for total calories. Per serving (makes 4): |Ingredient | Weight
Alfredo Sauce
A sauce so creamy, smooth, and cheesy it’ll piss off Italians. And satisfy Americans. I like to serve it with pasta and portabello mushrooms. Tools 1. Weighing scale 2. Blender 3. Microplane Ingredients 1. 15g (1 tbsp) of heavy cream. It’s just to ensure the blender blade moves.
Ask For a Raise
With inflation skyrocketing, getting a raise could mean the difference between keeping a roof over your head and being homeless. So I start every 1-on-1 with this question: “When’s my next raise?” I wasn’t always like this. For the first 5 years of my career, I wasn’t
How To Give Your All
After quitting my job to start my own company, I became paralyzed with fear. I would lie in my bed worried about whether I’d ever be able to find another job. I was watching my savings dwindle. One day my co-founder, Sahil, asked if I wanted to go on
Colloquial-Written Tamil
People want to connect with each other. The easiest way is to speak the language, the way people do, colloquially. I want to minimize the time it takes to accomplish that in Tamil. When I first started learning Tamil, I concentrated on the formal flavor. I didn’t realize the
