Ravinder Bhogal

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Ravinder Bhogal
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Ravinder Bhogal
Born
Nairobi, Kenya
Culinary career
Current restaurant(s)
Television show(s)
Award(s) won

Ravinder Bhogal is a food writer,[2][3] restaurateur, British chef, journalist and stylist.[4] She opened her first restaurant Jikoni in Marylebone, London in September 2016.

Bhogal's work and food spans flavours and culinary traditions from the Far East, India & South Asia, the Middle East, East Africa and Britain and she celebrates the idea of immigrant cuisine.[5]

Ravinder has written several cookbooks, and writes a regular monthly column for the FT Weekend.[6]

Early life[]

Born in Nairobi, Kenya, Bhogal grew up in London.[7]

Career[]

Television appearances[]

Bhogal made her first TV appearance when she won a competition in search of the new Fanny Cradock, judged by Gordon Ramsay and Angela Hartnett on series 3 of the The F Word in 2007.[8][9]

Ravinder travelled the world to investigate the journeys of different foods and farming practices in Channel 4's "Food: What's in your Basket" with co-host Jay Rayner[10] and has also hosted Ravinder's Kitchen, a culinary TV series that premiered in October 2013 on TLC.[1]

Books[]

Her debut book Cook in Boots won the for the UK's Best First Cookbook[11][12] and was awarded the first runners-up prize of the World's Best First Cookbook at the Paris Cookbook Fair in February 2010. The Gourmand World Cookbook Awards feature around 26,000 books from 136 countries.[13] Cook in Boots was released in 2009 by Harper Collins.[14]

Ravinder's latest book Jikoni: Proudly Inauthentic Recipes from an Immigrant Kitchen, published by Bloomsbury, and has a release date of 9 July 2020.[15]

Awards and achievements[]

She has twice been included in the Evening Standard Progress 1000 list as one of London's leading influencers of progress and diversity in the capital.[16][17] Ravinder won the Asian Women of Achievement Award in Association with RBS in Media in 2013.[18]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "This Diwali join Ravinder for a delicious treat". Times of India. TNN. 28 October 2013. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
  2. ^ "Food: What Goes in Your Basket? - Episode Guide". Channel 4. 29 March 2015. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
  3. ^ Rakowitz, Susanne (21 December 2010). ""Love to cook" oder Willkommen im Schlaraffenland". Kleine Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 13 July 2012.
  4. ^ Kapoor, Jaskiran (29 November 2013). "Is Chef Ravinder Bhogal India's very own Nigella Lawson?". The Indian Express: Archive. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
  5. ^ "Five minutes with Ravinder Bhogal who was labelled the modern-day Fanny Cradock". The Independent. 2018-03-30. Retrieved 2020-02-23.
  6. ^ "FT Weekend - Ravinder Bhogal". Financial Times.
  7. ^ Burney, Ellen (21 April 2013). "Ravinder Bhogal: The Complete Woman". Telegraph: Fashion. Telegraph Media Group Limited. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
  8. ^ Caroli, Aditi (14 November 2013). "Gordon Ramsay changed my life: Ravinder Bhogal". Hindustan Times. New Delhi. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
  9. ^ Montgomery, Hugh. "The spring foodie list: What to buy, cook, eat & drink this season". The Independent. Retrieved 30 March 2015. ...she won a competition to find "Britain's New Fanny Craddock" on Gordon Ramsay's The F Word...
  10. ^ "Channel 4 - Food: What's in Your Basket".
  11. ^ "Food, Glorious Food". The Asian Today - Interviews. 7 September 2010. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
  12. ^ Rai, Mridu (22 November 2013). "Kitchen chic : Food". India Today. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
  13. ^ "Indian food writer awarded". Zee News India. PTI. 22 December 2009. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
  14. ^ Bhogal, Ravinder; Lowe, Jason (2009). Cook in boots. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-00-729117-5.
  15. ^ "Jikoni: Proudly Inauthentic Recipes from an Immigrant Kitchen". Amazon - Jikoni: Proudly Inauthentic Recipes from an Immigrant Kitchen.
  16. ^ "The Progress 1000: Eat & Drink". Evening Standard. 2017-10-19. Retrieved 2020-02-23.
  17. ^ "London's most influential people 2019 – Going Out: Food & Drink". Evening Standard. 2019-10-02. Retrieved 2020-02-23.
  18. ^ "The inspirational journeys of 2013 Asian Women Awards finalists". Real Business. 2014-02-20. Retrieved 2020-02-23.
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