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Maunika Gowardhan

You can catch Maunika cooking live in the Wild Kitchen on Thursday 23 November at the BBC Good Food Show Winter. 

Maunika is an Indian chef and bestselling author, with a career stemming from her love for authentic flavours, cooking techniques and sharing a fresh perspective on the cuisine. She has amassed a loyal, global following across her platforms.

Maunika creates and shares traditional Indian dishes with exciting flavours and ingredients that are reflective of her heritage and upbringing in Mumbai. Her cooking approach is simple and enticing, and based around dishes that are accessible and recipes that are cooked from communities across India; many of which have been part of her own family for generations.

Maunika is a popular contributor to titles including Good Housekeeping, olive magazine, BBC Food and BBC 1’s Morning Live, and is the contributing editor for Vogue India writing about the London food scene. Tandoori Home Cooking is her third cookbook; her much-anticipated second book, Thali became a Times bestseller, and followed her internationally loved debut cookbook, Indian Kitchen.