I’m Cheryl Rajkumar, owner of Kitchen Kemistry food blog, scratch baker, home cook, food content creator, recipe developer, intermediate hiker, adventure junkie, plant mom, pediatric cancer research professional and karma believer. My friends and family say that I have an innate ability to present a delicious meal on the table. A fearless contriver in my kitchen, I trust my senses than the recipes! I believe that endeavoring to make most things from scratch honors FOOD itself and practice it too.
Born in beautiful coastal Goa, raised in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, explains my exposure to several Indian cuisine. My living experience in three continents (Asia, Europe and North America) and travelling over 20 countries influence my cooking style and choice of food. Mid 2011, I moved to the USA to join my husband. After quite a few moves (read 3 states) in a year’s time, we settled in San Francisco, California.
Kitchen Kemistry started in the year 2011. It is a collection of recipes prepared in my tiny kitchen with local ingredients. Being a locavore, my recipes are straight-forward with an emphasis on whole and fresh seasonal ingredients that offer more flavors, texture and choice. All garnered after goofy blunders, cooking disasters, burnt fingers and chipped nails. As a Life Science graduate, I believe that cooking and baking is a perfect combination of science and art. With the rigor of science and grace of art, baking is a delightful labor and food is a pleasurable bounty. Concocting with this rationale, my recipes provide the science that happens backstage.
Thanks for reading about me, my love for baking and creating my recipes.