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Born in Kenya, to Indian parents, Ravinder Bhogal is an award- winning journalist, author, chef and restaurateur. Ravinder’s food is inspired by her mixed heritage, and the UK’s diverse immigrant culture.

She has authored three books.

Her latest, Comfort & Joy: Irresistible Pleasures from a Vegetarian Kitchen(Bloomsbury) was released in 2023 to critical acclaim. Jikoni: Proudly Inauthentic Recipes from an Immigrant Kitchen, (Bloomsbury July 2020)
won the 2021 IACP Cookbook Award, was shortlisted for the André Simon Award and a Fortnum & Mason Award for Best Cookbook.

Her debut book, Cook in Boots (HarperCollins, 2009) won the Gourmand World Cookbook Award for the UK’s Best First Cookbook and was awarded the first runners-up prize of the World’s Best First Cookbook at the Paris Cookbook Fair in February 2010.

She is a columnist for the FT Weekend Magazine and Guardian Feast, contributing editor at Harper’s Bazaar, and regularly writes for The Observer Magazine, C