{"id":100590,"date":"2026-10-05T08:28:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T11:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/?p=100590"},"modified":"2026-10-05T08:28:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T11:28:44","slug":"khalil-akhtar-returns-to-mount-allison-this-week-with-a-different-approach-to-home-cooking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/khalil-akhtar-returns-to-mount-allison-this-week-with-a-different-approach-to-home-cooking\/","title":{"rendered":"Khalil Akhtar returns to Mount Allison this week with a different approach to home cooking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-dominant-color=\"c3b03e\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #c3b03e;\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"853\" height=\"1280\" sizes=\"(max-width: 853px) 100vw, 853px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/9781773104706_large-853x1280.avif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-100591 not-transparent\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/9781773104706_large-853x1280.avif 853w, https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/9781773104706_large-400x600.avif 400w, https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/9781773104706_large-768x1152.avif 768w, https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/9781773104706_large-1024x1536.avif 1024w, https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/9781773104706_large.avif 1200w\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">How to Eat with Your Hands: Roti Shoti and Other Ways to Settle In is Khalil Akhtar\u2019s first book. (Image: Goose Lane Editions)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Khalil Akhtar, host of CBC Radio\u2019s <em>Information Morning Moncton<\/em>, is bringing his first book to Mount Allison University this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>How to Eat with Your Hands: Roti Shoti and Other Ways to Settle In<\/em> introduces readers to the Punjabi home cooking Akhtar grew up with and still cooks for his own family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt is a cookbook for sure,\u201d Akhtar said. \u201cIt\u2019s an instruction manual on a particular kind of cooking, a particular kind of cuisine, specifically Punjabi household cuisine and domestic cuisine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The idea began with Akhtar thinking about constraint in his own kitchen. He found there was an advantage to knowing what was already in the pantry and having meals he could make without much planning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Akhtar was born in the United Kingdom and moved to the Maritimes when he was young, growing up largely in small-town Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. His father was a pharmacist, while his mother was a homemaker who taught him what he calls his earliest \u201celemental skills\u201d in the kitchen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/roti-web-real.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDinner almost invariably would have been what we call a curry in a plate, with a roti on the side,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There might also be salad, pickle or chutney. The curry changed from day to day, but the basic framework remained familiar. Akhtar compared the word \u201ccurry\u201d to calling something a taco, since both can describe many different dishes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As he got older, he also became more aware that the food and habits he knew at home stood out when he was elsewhere. Akhtar described himself as becoming a \u201cthird culture kid,\u201d not entirely fitting into either world and learning to change how he behaved depending on where he was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou eat with your hands among your family, but you wouldn\u2019t go to the school cafeteria, for example, and eat a plate of rice and dal with your hands among the people eating their egg salad sandwiches,\u201d he said. \u201cYou learn pretty fast to code switch.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Akhtar said food changes as people move, adapt to what is available and interact with other cultures. Some practices he said would have been mocked when he was young have since become more familiar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMany of the things that I grew up with wouldn\u2019t have blended in the 1980s,\u201d he said. \u201cThey would\u2019ve been mocked. And then decades later, people are drinking turmeric lattes at cafes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When asked whether today\u2019s access to different cuisines gives people greater opportunities to learn about food and other cultures, Akhtar was quick to agree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOne hundred per cent. This is a golden age,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Akhtar isn\u2019t arguing against that choice. Where he sees a difficulty is at home, when Tuesday\u2019s dinner has little connection to Wednesday\u2019s and each one sends the cook back to another recipe or another trip for ingredients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-dominant-color=\"6d6354\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #6d6354;\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"843\" height=\"1280\" sizes=\"(max-width: 843px) 100vw, 843px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_5506-e1791174751567-843x1280.avif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-100592 not-transparent\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_5506-e1791174751567-843x1280.avif 843w, https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_5506-e1791174751567-395x600.avif 395w, https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_5506-e1791174751567-768x1167.avif 768w, https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_5506-e1791174751567-1011x1536.avif 1011w, https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_5506-e1791174751567.avif 1320w\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Khalil Akhtar speaks with CHMA about his new book during an interview at the CHMA studios. (Photo: Theodore Ramharack\/CHMA).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He describes what can be lost in that process as a common \u201csyntax\u201d in the kitchen \u2014 a familiar system of ingredients and techniques that a cook understands well enough to combine and adapt without starting from a new recipe each time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Akhtar said that could mean having seven, eight, nine or a dozen dishes you know well, while still trying something different when you have the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTrying new things is great. It\u2019s fun,\u201d he said. \u201cBut to make that the basic way of functioning of a kitchen I think is problematic, because then you\u2019re always referring to recipes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Roti is the first recipe in the book, and Akhtar said making it repeatedly is one way a cook can develop that familiarity. Someone making roti regularly for a family can make thousands over time, learning what the dough should feel like through practice rather than continually relying on measurements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou get to know them in your muscles in the way that, you know, a piano player plays a piano,\u201d Akhtar said of familiar cooking techniques. \u201cThey\u2019re not thinking anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Akhtar keeps roti dough in his refrigerator and said that can put fresh bread on the table in about five minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His own preferred meal is similarly simple: fresh roti and dal with raw onion, lemon and hot green chilies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThat\u2019s a meal, and it costs literally pennies,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Akhtar estimated a thin dal with one roti could cost less than a dollar to make, an example of the kind of inexpensive and practical home cooking he wants the book to make approachable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>How to Eat with Your Hands<\/em> was the title before Akhtar had settled on the book\u2019s final form. He said it is partly a nod to food writer M.F.K. Fisher\u2019s <em>How to Cook a Wolf<\/em>, but he also means the instruction literally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Using pieces of roti to pinch, scoop and combine different parts of a meal, Akhtar said, creates an experience that is difficult to reproduce with a knife and fork.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt makes the food taste better, weirdly,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Akhtar compared it to a sandwich, saying the experience would change if you took it apart and ate each ingredient separately with a knife and fork.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere is something about eating with your hands that allows you to sort of integrate the things that you\u2019re eating together in unique ways,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Akhtar said the book is for readers interested in Punjabi home cooking, but also for people thinking about how they cook in their own kitchens. Along with roti, the book works through the ingredients, dishes and techniques that make up the everyday cuisine he is describing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf you want to truly understand and make Punjabi cuisine part of your daily domestic practice, you do have to devote your kitchen to it somewhat,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Akhtar isn\u2019t asking readers to cook this way forever. He suggested sticking with one cuisine for a while, making its food often enough that the ingredients and techniques start to feel familiar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The book release is also bringing Akhtar back to Mount Allison, where he was involved with CHMA in the early 2000s. He served as the station\u2019s music director in 2001 and 2002, when CHMA operated out of a different building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Walking through the station today, Akhtar said he can still find CDs in the library that he helped catalogue more than two decades ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI love radio,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd this is where it started.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>How to Eat with Your Hands: Roti Shoti and Other Ways to Settle In<\/em> launches Thursday, Oct. 8 at 6:30 p.m. in Tweedie Hall at Mount Allison University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:28% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img data-dominant-color=\"7a6c63\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #7a6c63;\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"810\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1.avif\" alt=\"lk;k;lk\n\" class=\"wp-image-83784 size-full not-transparent\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1.avif 810w, https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1-600x600.avif 600w, https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1-300x300.avif 300w, https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1-768x768.avif 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Theodore Ramharack <\/strong>holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Western University and a diploma in Broadcast Journalism. 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