Europe: ‘lasting warmth’

There’s a difference between heat and warmth, and Chef Cyrus Todiwala has spent more than three decades in London making the case for it. Heat, he explains, is chilli-driven and fleeting; warmth is spice-driven and built to last – a whole-body experience rooted in the Ayurvedic principle Hippocrates carried home from India in 323 BC. In this episode he unpacks why layering matters more than intensity, and what European palates are only now becoming ready to taste.