She returned to New York City in 1998 and joined a high-yield investment fund at CIBC, but soon left to enrol at New York's French Culinary Institute from which she graduated in 1999.
She returned to New York City in 1998 and joined a high-yield investment fund at CIBC. Within a year, Sarma left finance altogether and enrolled at New York's French Culinary Institute and graduated in 1999.