by Amrita Priya | Jun 23, 2025
(Jun 23, 2025) With a background that already spans a self-published cookbook, a home-based-restaurant, a university pop-up venture, reality TV, and private chef gigs for elite athletes, 20-year-old Arnav Kamulkar is far ahead of most aspiring chefs his age. In the...
by Amrita Priya | Mar 4, 2025
(March 4, 2025) “All 50 young chefs from different countries participating in the Young Chef Olympiad (YCO) formed strong bonds during the competition, making it an experience of a lifetime,” says Aliakbar Rampurawala, reflecting on his journey at the 2025 YCO in an...
by Namrata Srivastava | Feb 16, 2023
(February 16, 2023) As per a recent study by German food ordering company Lieferando, Indian food is the second most popular cuisine on social media and had the fastest growth rate of 41 percent. In the last two decades, several young chefs from the Indian diaspora...
by Amrita Priya | Mar 14, 2022
(March 14, 2022) Not many of us could have envisioned Ellen DeGeneres learning to make puttu, Kerala’s breakfast dish. But this did happen in 2016, when the American talk show host stood smilingly beside her tutor, the very earnest Chef Nihal Raj or...
by Darshana Ramdev | Feb 18, 2022
(February 18, 2022) As he stood before the chopping board at New York City’s famed Eleven Madison Park, all set to start cutting, Chef Neel Kajale found himself face to face with an angry sous chef. “I simply couldn’t understand why he was...
