Roopa Gulati

Chef, food writer and broadcaster, Roopa Gulati was brought up by Punjabi parents in Cumbria. At eighteen, she moved to London to hone her cooking at the Cordon Bleu cookery school, and after completing her diploma left England for India – her home for the next two decades.

During her time in India, Roopa worked as Consultant Chef to the Taj Group of Hotels, and ran her own catering business. She became a household name across Asia, with a daily cookery slot on Star TV’s Good Morning India. In this popular strand she cooked her mother’s favourite Punjabi recipes alongside historical dishes from royal palaces and stalwarts from home kitchens across India.

In 2001, Roopa returned to the UK with her two daughters and has since carved out a new life and new career. She was UKTV’s Food Editor at the Good Food Channel for several years, and as a freelance journalist, she scoped and developed several TV shows, including BBC2’s Rick Stein’s India.

She is a published author and contributes features to leading magazines and was a restaurant critic for Time Out magazine for fifteen years. As a broadcaster she has featured on BBC Radio 4’s Food Programme and various BBC TV shows

In her spare time, she hosts regular Borough Market cookery demonstrations in London, and when she’s not feeding a crowd, she works on recipe development and research projects for leading national and international brands.

Roopa lives with her husband Dan in north-west London and has two grown-up daughters. Any free time is spent in the kitchen, creating rather a lot of washing up.