Born in Kenya, to Indian parents, Ravinder Bhogal is an award- winning journalist, author, chef and restaurateur. Ravinder’s food is inspired by her mixed heritage, and the UK’s diverse immigrant culture.

She has authored three books. Her latest, Comfort & Joy: Irresistible Pleasures from a Vegetarian Kitchen (Bloomsbury) was released in 2023 to critical acclaim. Jikoni: Proudly Inauthentic Recipes from an Immigrant Kitchen, (Bloomsbury July 2020)
won the 2021 IACP Cookbook Award, was shortlisted for the André Simon Award and a Fortnum & Mason Award for Best Cookbook. Her debut book, Cook in Boots (HarperCollins, 2009) won the Gourmand World Cookbook Award for the UK’s Best First Cookbook and was awarded the first runners-up prize of the World’s Best First Cookbook at the Paris Cookbook Fair in February 2010.

She is a columnist for the FT Weekend Magazine and Guardian Feast, contributing editor at Harper’s Bazaar, and regularly writes for The Observer Magazine, Condé Nast Traveller and Vogue online. Ravinder has travelled the globe as a reporter for Channel 4’s magazine show Food: What Goes in your Basket? Other UK television credits include appearances on prime-time Saturday Kitchen, Sunday Brunch, Saturday Morning with James Martin, Masterchef and This Morning. She has been seen on prime time Indian television with her own 22-part series, Ravinder’s Kitchen (BBC Worldwide) which has been sold across Asia and the Middle East.

In November 2021, Ravinder along with her husband and business co-founder Nadeem Nanjuwany, was awarded a place on ScottishPower’s COP26 GreenPower List, which honours inspiring green champions from across the UK who are going above and beyond in the ongoing fight against climate change.She has also twice been named in the Evening Standard Progress 1000 as one of London’s leading influencers of progress and diversity in the capital. In 2019, 2021 and 2022 Code Hospitality named her one of the most influential women in food.