Nita Mehta: How the Indian homemaker built a culinary empire, redefining norms

From being a homemaker to a culinary legend, Nita Mehta has come a long way. Famous for her expertise in fine Indian dining, Nita Mehta is considered as one of most successful names in history of Indian culinary industry. An author to several bestselling cookbooks, Nita Mehta has mand to redefine contours of Indian culinary style, as chef is kwn for serving tritional Indian dishes with a modern twist. Here is everything you need to kw about Nita Mehta.

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Nita Mehta’s journey

Nita Mehta, who was a home-maker, kick-started her culinary journey as a profession in 1982, when ace chef started giving cooking lessons to students. In an interview with a leing daily, Nita Mehta revealed that her husband was facing downhill in business and she wanted to help him run family in whatever way she could. Mehta ded that she researched about current trends in cooking classes and decided to start an ice-cream making tutorial. Nita Mehta revealed that people from different walks of life joined her classes to socialise over food.

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Having me her marks as a successful culinary expert, Nita Mehta explored different s of cuisines. Considered as an expert in continental, Asian and French baking, Nita Mehta has authored more than 400 books.

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Nita Mehta Awards and accoles

Nita Mehta was bestowed with ‘Best Asian Cookbook Award for Flavours of Indian Cooking’ at  World Cookbook Fair in Paris in 1999. Mehta also graced television industry with MasterChef India. Nita Mehta also co-judged popular Indian television show, Mallika-E-Kitchen. In 2010, Mehta was roped in by Hamdard Laboratories to create new mocktail and dessert recipes for Rooh Afza, ir all-season summer drink, which was used in a marketing campaign.

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