Food

A regular visit to the grocery store gave Mumbai-based Soumyadeep Mukherjee his startup idea. He along with his two friends created ‘Spice Story’, which sells a variety of chutneys and aims to be a household name soon.

Avinash Patnaik quit his job as an agriculture officer to pursue his love for flowers and food. Today, he is among the top 12 participants on MasterChef India Season 7, where he puts floral spins on Odisha's traditional cuisine.

After years of ill health, commerce graduate Priya Vijan decided to quit her job and create plant-based recipes, which won her a spot on MasterChef India 2023.

Monginis is loved across India today, and its origins are just as fantastical as the cakes it sells. Here’s how two Italian brothers made Bombay their home and gave us desserts we relished for generations.

Quitting his corporate job, K V Rama Subba Reddy took up millet farming and launched Mibbles, a venture that sells healthy millet snacks. For his work, he is regarded as Andhra’s ‘Millet Man’.

NRI Lalu Thomas returned to India after 15 years in the UAE and is all set to launch La Bae, a mushroom-infused coffee that is said to have numerous health benefits as per research. He shares how he developed this in collaboration with the Krishi Vigyan Kendra.

Engineer Murali Gundanna quit his job to start Food Box, which sells affordable home cooked meals across Mysuru using his grandmother’s recipes. In this video, he shares his learnings and tips to start a business.

Dodha burfi, one of the most popular sweets in the country, was the result of an experiment by Punjabi wrestler Harbans Vig in the 1900s.

Shrey Arora and Urvashi Srivastava share how they created a healthy snacks business with their grandmother’s recipes with Trick or Treat, and what it takes to run a successful venture.

Food writers Anisha Rachel Oommen and Aysha Tanya have compiled ‘A Kitchen of One's Own’, a community cookbook that documents heirloom family recipes from across India.