The food entrepreneur who didn’t grow up in the kitchen, with Nithiya Laila

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"I never really thought cooking was my thing," says culinary anthropologist Nithiya Laila, on Crazy Smart Asia.

In conversation with Gen.T's Chong Seow Wei, Laila shares how she's built a business around communal eating, how the produce we grow and eat tells the story of who we are and the surprising reason she played truant at school.

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