“Turning a wreckage into something sweet,” with Faim’s Nadia Parekh

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!