Asha Bhosle’s legacy extends beyond the 12,000 songs she recorded across languages throughout her 80-year-plus career. Beyond her music career, Asha was also a successful entrepreneur, operating Asha’s, a global restaurant chain across 14 outlets and two continents, which stemmed from her personal penchant for cooking. Asha’s was founded back in 2002, with its first outlet at Wafi Mall in Dubai. The singer took keen interest in the kitchen, providing recipes and her family’s signature garam masala, pounded in her hometown of Mumbai. Her inclination towards cooking began in her childhood, when she travelled extensively along with her father’s theatre troupe. She particularly enjoyed having meals with the entire crew seated together. After her father’s death when she was just nine, Asha, along with her sisters including legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar, had to look after the household as well as earn their family’s daily bread. Even though cooking became a compulsion then, Asha would continue to experiment in the kitchen, picking up the art of preparing North Indian and Maharashtrian delicacies through her family. Asha’s …