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AMRIT A RAICHAND | C O VER S T OR Y
AMRITA RAICHAND | COVER STORY

was always Amrita’s forte, took centre-stage.
She was in possession of handwritten recipe Amrita & Rahul make a
fine pair, indeed
books of both her mother and mother-in-
law which she studiously went through,
selecting and cooking from those recipes as
well as recipes from Roshan Chagla’s Recipes
From My Kitchen which was her mum’s go-
to cookbook. Her mum encouraged her
enormously to pursue a career in the food
business.
“Look, it was the most natural thing to
do. I was married into a family where for
every meal there had to be five or six dishes
on the table. It was very, very different for
me, but it was enriching to be exposed to this
plethora of food. So I started leaning more
and more in that direction and before I knew
it I was totally immersed in all things food!”
“With a son growing up quickly, I was
pretty involved in subjects such as, ‘How
to cook for your child’, when a TV offer
came my way. Mummy Ka Magic happened
when Agastya must have been three or four.
I agreed to it and within 10 days we had
shot 13 episodes at Film City, shooting three
episodes on some days!”, says Amrita, who
has probably never taken a break in her life,
but gone on and on, one phase to another.
From anchoring TV shows to judging
food shows, from being a brand ambassador,
to receiving various awards including one
from the Indian government as Cultural
Ambassador of Food in India, to doing
Ted Talks on why it is important to allow
a child to eat what the child wants to eat,
how the equation between child and food is
important, Amrita has pretty much covered
the gamut!
Knowledge and the process of learning
must go on and Amrita found time to
pursue culinary arts by going to Singapore
to do an advanced culinary course at At-
Sunrice Global Chef Academy. She also did an
online certification course in Gastronomy
and Nutrition from Le Cordon Bleu, to
enhance her ability to understand nuances
of a growing trend; healthy eating. “True,
you know, I wanted to turn every meal of
a child into a healthy experience without
making it boring,” she enlightens. Agastya
is 17 now, yet Amrita concentrates on being
a mum, first.

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