COOKING EXPERT

“RIDA AFTAB”

One of the top cooking experts Rida Aftab has made a mark and proved herself in the world of cooking, living a very content life with her family, friends, and colleagues.

Personal Life:

Rida Aftab a renowned chef, but she likes to call her a cooking expert was born on 17 April, in Abbottabad. She did her matriculation from Lady Bird Johnson High School and her graduation from Jinnah College from Women. She likes to eat mostly vegetables and passionate about cooking.

Life has been very kind to her; she has no regrets and doesn’t have any bad day in her life. She is not arrogant her friends said. One thing she want to change in her life is her voice.

Rida is very softhearted person, she can cry easily on little things. “During life show of mother’s day, everyone was talking about their mothers and crying, I was also crying with them. I can’t control my emotions easily.” One thing that irritates her is she doesn’t have words to explain her thoughts easily. “I have no enemies, I love to help people and be friends with them.” she said contentedly.

Motivation:

Rida has a very chefy kind of a childhood. From her early days she played with her toy utensils and pretends cooking like Zubaida Tariq and Kokab Khawaja. Rida belongs to a very conservative family, but when se got married, her in laws supported her a lot and insists her husband to allow her work in media. Abeel Jawed and Imran Ismail always had been her support is this field.

 She did many courses from reputable hotels like Marriott, Sheraton, Pearl Continental, and a very popular institute Rangoon Wala.

She is a cooking expert with a motive, who not only wants to teach cooking but also morally.

Career:

Very first she worked in “Apna Channel” as a cooking expert. When she was working in a magazine she was offered in a Nadia Khan show to host a cooking segment “Breakfast” but she denied,” I was puzzled and was afraid of facing the camera for the big viewership so I declined the offer.” She told. After sometime she was also offered again from another TV channel Indus TV to serve their channel in a live cooking show,” their chef, Rahat was going on a leave for personal reasons so they offered me, first I refused it, but one of my colleague suggested me to go and see the offer.” Rida Aftab worked there for 20 days and gained so much popularity among the viewers. People liked the way she cook and teach in a simple way. When their chef Rahat returned back she was annoyed to see Rida doing a show instead of her,” She shouted on the team of the Indus TV, that why they hired a woman who don’t know even how to hold a knife. She told solemnly. The chief executive of Indus TV offered me to do their show permanently but I didn’t want to take other person’s show, but they said if you don’t do the show will hire other chef so she decided to do the show, and that was the time of her beginning of her career as a chef on a TV.

After gaining fame from Indus TV she moved to another big network of Pakistan Masala TV. The reason she told of changing the channel is that she was not paid enough she said.” A person first work for his interest than his interest becomes his need.”

FM 100 Pakistan:

Rida Aftab is also very famous among radio listeners as she is working for FM 100 Pakistan for about 4 years. By working there she is fulfilling the desire of listeners of learning how to cook easily.

Cooking Expert:

“A cooking expert should be a good human being first and then should know each and every basic point of home cooking.” She told. Rida didn’t dislike anything about being a chef as she is so much passionate about cooking. From Mexican dishes to Italian cuisines, Chinese food to Desi Dishes Rida can cook everything. She can cook anything even from limited ingredients. She wants to continue this career as long as she can. She is very much diet conscious “I always prepare healthy food I am so much diet conscious” She told. Rida is doing one-hour live show which is really tough without any co-host. She also receives live calls; most of her callers appreciate her. Rida is among few female chefs who are doing such a long live show. 

Activities:

“I always bought cooking books from not only Pakistan but all over the world and read them so that I can learn from them.” She told. She always comes up with new and fresh ideas of cooking which is the most attracted thing for her show.

After doing show she likes to stay at home mostly. She said,” If I would not be a chef then I would be a good house wife and mother.” She doesn’t like to go outside even for shopping.

Kitchen Experience:

Rida has a one kitchen bad experience. One day she was baking a cake; her maid put a mosquito spray in the second portion of the oven. When she put the cake in the cake she didn’t see that and after few moments that blasted and Rida also get injured, kitchen was ablaze.