Razia sat next to her highly successful executive husband, Badruddin Syed, on the couch in their modern, well-furnished home in Bangalore, India’s Silicon Valley. She was demure, not sure what to think of this man with a thick American accent who was probing her with questions about her culinary upbringing in a traditional Lucknowi home. She kept looking at her husband with questioning eyes, but once she was comfortable that I could speak her “lingo,” she o