About the Instructor: Pooja Bavishi is the Founder and CEO of Malai, an artisanal ice cream company with flavorsinspired bynostalgic,aromatic spices and South Asian ingredients, based in Brooklyn, NewYork. Pooja founded Malaiwhen she discovered that the same spices of her childhood–ginger,rose petals, saffron, and cardamom-could be used to robustly flavor ice creams in a way thatshe had never tasted before.She notes that she “founded Malai because desserts bring peoplejoy, and I wanted to be in the business of delivering happiness.”