Ravinder Bhogal

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.

Ravinder Bhogal
Ravinder Bhogal
Born
Nairobi, Kenya
Culinary career
Cooking styleBritish cuisine
Current restaurant(s)
Television show(s)
  • Host of Ravinder's Kitchen on TLC[1]
Award(s) won
  • Gourmand World Cookbook Award, Evening Standard Progress 1000 2017 & 2019, Asian Women of Achievement Award in Media 2013

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,[6] and writes a regular monthly column for the FT Weekend[7] and Guardian Feast.[8] Bhogal is contributing editor at Harper’s Bazaar, and regularly writes for The Observer Magazine, Guardian and Vogue online.[9][10][11]

Early life

Born in Nairobi, Kenya, Bhogal grew up in London.[12]

Career

Books

Bhogal has authored three books. Her debut book Cook in Boots won the Gourmand World Cookbook Award for the UK's Best First Cookbook[13][14] 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.[15] Cook in Boots was released in 2009 by HarperCollins.[16]

Jikoni: Proudly Inauthentic Recipes from an Immigrant Kitchen, (Bloomsbury July 2020) won the 2021 IACP Cookbook Award,[17] was shortlisted for the André Simon Award[18] and a Fortnum & Mason Award for Best Cookbook.[19]

Her latest, Comfort & Joy: Irresistible Pleasures from a Vegetarian Kitchen (Bloomsbury) was released on 25th May 2023.[20]

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 F Word in 2007.[21][22]

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[23] and has also hosted Ravinder's Kitchen, a culinary TV series that premiered in October 2013 on TLC.[1]

Awards and achievements

Bhogal 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.[24][25] Ravinder won the Asian Women of Achievement Award in Association with RBS in Media in 2013[26] a Gourmand World Cookbook Award for Best First Cookbook, and the 2021 IACP Cookbook Award for Chefs and Restaurants.

Her debut restaurant, Jikoni, was ranked in the top 100 UK Restaurants by the National Restaurant Awards[27] and achieved a place in the Michelin Guide in the same year.[28] Jikoni was more recently ranked No19 by Squaremeal in London’s Top 100 Restaurants 2022, and in Time Out’s Top 100 in 2023.[29]

In 2021 Jikoni was the first independent restaurant in the UK to be certified Carbon Neutral[30][31]

References
  1. "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. 30 March 2018. Retrieved 23 February 2020.
  6. "Ravinder Bhogal: Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)".
  7. "FT Weekend - Ravinder Bhogal". Financial Times.
  8. "Ravinder Bhogal | The Guardian". TheGuardian.com.
  9. "Harper's Bazaar and Town & Country announce team changes".
  10. "Cooking eased my exile and became my homage to the lives of immigrants". TheGuardian.com.
  11. "British Vogue Online | 3 Immunity-Boosting Comfort Recipes To Make Now".
  12. 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.
  13. "Food, Glorious Food". The Asian Today - Interviews. 7 September 2010. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
  14. Rai, Mridu (22 November 2013). "Kitchen chic : Food". India Today. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
  15. "Indian food writer awarded". Zee News India. PTI. 22 December 2009. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
  16. Bhogal, Ravinder; Lowe, Jason (2009). Cook in boots. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-00-729117-5.
  17. "IACP 2021 AWARD WINNERS".
  18. "André Simon Awards Recent Shortlists".
  19. "Fortnum & Mason Food & Drink Awards 2021 | Guild of Food Writers".
  20. "Comfort and Joy: Irresistible pleasures from a vegetarian kitchen (Bloomsbury Publishing)".
  21. Caroli, Aditi (14 November 2013). "Gordon Ramsay changed my life: Ravinder Bhogal". Hindustan Times. New Delhi. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
  22. 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...
  23. "Channel 4 - Food: What's in Your Basket".
  24. "The Progress 1000: Eat & Drink". Evening Standard. 19 October 2017. Retrieved 23 February 2020.
  25. "London's most influential people 2019 – Going Out: Food & Drink". Evening Standard. 2 October 2019. Retrieved 23 February 2020.
  26. "The inspirational journeys of 2013 Asian Women Awards finalists". Real Business. 20 February 2014. Retrieved 23 February 2020.
  27. "The 2017 National Restaurant Awards Top 100 | Delicious Magazine".
  28. "Jikoni London - A Michelin Guide Restaurant".
  29. "London's Best Restaurants | Timeout".
  30. "Jikoni first small restaurant to go carbon neutral | Squaremeal".
  31. "Jikoni becomes UK's first independent restaurant to go carbon neutral | Evening Standard".
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