His great-grandfather was one of the first migrants to Bombay from Bulsar (as Parsis prefer to call Valsad in south Gujarat) and worked as a skilled carpenter in the shipbuilding firm of the Wadias. Our hero had a modest but comfortable childhood, with little interest in arithmetic, and even lesser interest in learning English. Out of his small inheritance, he started a business to manufacture and sell potato wafers (as chips were then called). He called them paw-tè-toe in his Gujarati accent.
Thick, tasty, golden, salty, wholesome, fatty wafers made from the finest potatoes and fried in fresh oil extracted......