THEJAMESCASTS

This is the podcast version of our October 2021 breakfast lecture by Priyal Mehta on the theme DESIGN.

Priyal Mehta is the chef and owner of Dulce de Mirchi. With a

background in design and the culinary arts, she curates

multi-sensory dining experiences where the diners can explore

her playful mélange of flavours and dishes inspired by her third

culture existence.

Priyal studied Strategic Design and Management from Parsons

The New School for Design in New York. She later started her

culinary journey with an intensive and enriching Chef’s training

program at the Natural Gourmet Institute for health & culinary

arts in Manhattan. During her time in the U.S.A., she had the

opportunity to receive training from Jean George’s ABC

Restaurants to learn about Japanese Shojin cuisine at Kajitsu.

As a chef, she wants to design food experiences that introduce

people to plant-based food through carefully crafted menus —

her contemporary creations inspired by her childhood in Asia,

memories from her travels and design explorations.

I met Shady Ahmed when I was the host of Nightline on DubaiEye 103.8FM.

Paul Kelly of DA and I talked to Shady about his music, inspiration and more.

Just a really fun conversation and the prelude to a 2nd conversation in 2021.

https://open.spotify.com/artist/3eIVnT7Y7vwWMh9d2kXhKf?si=tP_mMm91RPOEzivjGS00Xg

@ShadyAhmed

Dr. Jenna and I talk about stem cells.

Good, bad, ethical?

Jenna has a great take on this rather new medical advance.

Andrew Thomas and I talk tech on our PODAHOLIKS podcast.

In this episode, it is all about what we are using and what we are not buying into.

One thing is for sure we live in a tech bubble and figure everyone is tech-savvy, not the case at all!

We talk device transitioning and the plug and play of web interfaces.

Simply a great conversation!

This is Nur M’nasria's talk at CreativeMornings in Dubai in September 2021 on the theme DARE!

Nur M’nasria, an accomplished TV and film producer who started her journey in community service while in her mid-teens. Motivated by her own urban-nomad life of her youth, Nur has been captivated by people with vulnerabilities, specifically impoverished children.

Her interest led her to consolidate her community work under Flea 4 Charity, which she co-founded in 2011. Today hundreds of children are being looked after and playgrounds have been established by the team of Play For Smiles since 2015 under Nur's leadership. In December 2016 she won ITP’s Young Arab Awards as the philanthropist of the year.

In parallel to the humanitarian efforts, she has continued her production work since 2008. She has worked as a producer for six seasons of the popular Arabic TV show Khawatir. Nur was also the production manager of an award-winning film “Jareedy”, the first film to be narrated in the Nubian language.

Nur strongly believes in the existence of the strength every individual has to be able to accomplish his or her dreams. Her mission in life is to spread and be the source of light, blessings and love.

I had the opportunity to have a conversation with the team at EMOTORAD and talk about e-bikes, India, the UAE and Expo.

Kunal Gupta, Aditya Oza and Sumedha Battewar spoke candidly about the transportation revolution that is underway and how e-bikes are a huge part of it.  

From India to the world EMOTORAD is out to innovate not only how we think about transportation but also how we think about customer service.

https://www.emotorad.com/

Glenn Power and I do the Powerworks podcast and here it is!

Andrew Thomas is doing a DIY car pimping, we will catch up on that.

Brake lights what are the regulations, seems to be non!

And what is Glenn fixing?

Great car talk!

Colin Thomas and I talk DIY and we kicked off this chat with a recap of Colin's new hobby VW Bug racing!

AC cleaning can kill we have a story.

And fixing drafts now is the time and we have a good laugh here.

Ideas, information and all with a smile enjoy the chat!

Andrew Thomas and I talk tech.

We both learned about an old feature in Chrome that is new to us.

We talked about the price of printers and laptops there are some deals to be had.

EUFY home security how is it so cheap?

We did this podcast over ZOOM, enjoy!

Glenn Power and I talk cars on the Powerworks Podcast and here it is!

We had a good discussion about parts and the mechanics' eye view of you bringing your own parts.

Joey WooWu loves lane assist, we spoke about that!