Ravinder Bhogal

Ravinder Bhogal is an award-winning food writer[3][4], restaurateur, British chef, journalist and stylist.[5] She founded her first restaurant Jikoni in Marylebone, London in September 2016.

Ravinder Bhogal
Ravinder Bhogal
Born
Nairobi, Kenya
Culinary career

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[6]. 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.[7][8] Ravinder won the Asian Women of Achievement Award in Association with RBS in Media in 2013.[9]

Her debut book Cook in Boots won the Gourmand World Cookbook Award for the UK's Best First Cookbook[10][11] 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.[12] Cook in Boots was released in 2009 by Harper Collins.[13]

Bhogal published "Jikoni: Proudly Inauthentic Recipes from an Immigrant Kitchen" in 2019.[14]

BBC program Desi DNA had its highest viewing figures when Ravinder presented a two-parter entitled "The Great British Curry Trail". The show followed her traveling across the country to find out how Britain fell in love with Indian food.[1] She also hosted Ravinder's Kitchen, a culinary TV series that premiered in October 2013 on TLC.[2]

Bhogal made her first TV appearance when she won a competition in search of the new Fanny Cradock, judged by Gordon Ramsay and Angela Harnettas on The F Word.[15][16]

Born in Nairobi, Kenya, Bhogal grew up in London[17].

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


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