Madhur Jaffrey

Madhur Jaffrey, CBE is an Indianborn actress, food and travel writer, and television personality. She is recognized for bringing Indian cuisine to the Western world with her debut cookbook, An Invitation to Indian Cooking , which was inducted into the James Beard Foundations Cookbook Hall of Fame in 2006. She has written over a dozen cookbooks and appeared on several related television programs, the most notable of which was Madhur Jaffreys Indian Cookery, which premiered in the UK in 1982. She is the food consultant at Dawat, considered by many food critics to be among the best Indian restaurants in New York City.

Madhur Jaffrey was born Madhur Bahadur onAugust 1933 in Civil Lines, Delhi, into a Kayastha Hindu joint family. She is the fifth of six children of Lala Raj Bans Bahadur and his wife, Kashmiran Rani . Madhurs grandfather, Rai Bahadur Raj Narain , had built a sprawling family compound, named NumberRaj Narain Marg, by the Yamuna river amid fruit orchards.

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