Pallavi Amberkar is a Mumbai girl whose roots lie in Malvan in coastal Maharashtra. She opted out of working when her son was born, but her desire to work was always there. She came across the concept of home cook organised home dining experiences through Authenticook, tried it out, and loved the experience. She cooked Malvani food as it was cooked in her home, and the audience lapped up her food. She planned to cater to party orders after that but saw that most were going in for small orders. This was not her plan, but she did not back out. Then came the COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown, and she began to retail home-cooked Malvani meals under the brand name Flavours of Malvan. She would go to the markets to pick up fresh seafood and meat, and her food became a hit, as seen in repeat purchases and word-of-mouth recommendations. The lockdown ended, and the market opened up. People wanted to go out and eat, but the competition for ordering in increased. Home chefs had a tough time holding on, and only the very best and most determined continued. Both applied to Pallavi, who looked at options beyond her regular weekly menus. She tried looking for large catering orders and launched a biryani brand. She considered opening a restaurant and has gone back to her roots by launching home dining more formally. It took me 4 years to convince the rather reticent Pallavi to participate in the podcast. Still, as she says, her confidence has increased over the years, and she now understands the need to push her business more aggressively. Listen to Pallavi Amberkar on this episode of #foodocracy to learn about her inspiring story. Pallavi is based in Mumbai. For orders and to be added to her WhatsApp group, you can message her at +91 9819703070. The award-winning #podcast #FoodocracyForHer by Kalyan Karmakar is India's longest-running podcast featuring women entrepreneurs in the food and beverage business. This is the third season. Please share the episode. Please click on like as it helps the video be discovered, and please subscribe to the channel to catch future episodes of the podcast.

Jasleen Marwah is a media professional turned home chef who launched her Kashmiri food offering, Namak, during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Namak exists primarily as a catering offer now. Something new has happened in Jasleen's life. She is now the co-owner cum chef of a restaurant called Folk in Mumbai's art district of Kalaghoda. Folk offers pan Indian food and not just Kashmiri food. In her second appearance in Foodocracy For Her, Jasleen speaks to us about her new endeavour.

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Ushri Guruji's love for cooking started at the age of 10. She lived in Kolkata then. Her inspiration was chef Sanjeev Kapoor's show Khana Khazana. She moved to Mumbai, married into a Bohri family, and has been in the corporate world for 17 years. Her love for feeding people inspired her to start her home chef business, Ushri HomeChef, 4 years back during the Covid 19 lockdown. She offers both Bengali and Bohri food. She did not slow down after the lockdown ended. She treats her home chef business with utmost seriousness and juggles it with her day job in the corporate sector. She does weekly menus and organises innovative food cum culture pop-ups. Do listen to her as she shares her learnings about running a home chef business, the role that long-term vision and patience play and the need to be adept at marketing and seeking help when required. You can get in touch with her on Instagram or Facebook on her page @ushrihomechef or call her on 9967468014/ 7506650961 The award-winning #podcast #FoodocracyForHer by Kalyan Karmakar is India's longest-running podcast featuring women entrepreneurs in the food and beverage business. This is the third season. Please share the episode. Please click on like as it helps the video be discovered and please do subscribe to the channel to catch future episodes of the podcast.

She was referred to as the 'salad queen' before salads became a thing.She hosted a food and travel show before they food and travel shows became a thinfg.She came up with a farmer's market before farmers became a thing.Watch Karen Anand in this episode of #foodocracyforher to find out what drives this force of nature.

Makhanas are trending in the Indian dietary world these days but do you know what they are? How they are grown? How they are processed? If not, then this podcast episode featuring Pratibha Bondia Kheria of Pearl Mithila Makhana...and organic and ethically driven enterprise...will give you the answers that you are looking for. Along with the inspiring story of this socially conscious entrepreneur. 

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Reshma and Annu are two sisters who grew up in a small town near Kochi in Kerala. Reshma went to Mumbai for her studies and to work. Annu went to Chennai to study and now works out of Bangalore. The two sisters are part of India's tech boom, having worked in the intersection of bio-tech and radiology and in AI.  The lockdown and going back home and seeing the power of the cooking of their amma and amma chechi (maternal aunt) and their ambitions (the two matrons reached the semifinals of a cooking competition aired on TV), they felt the need to create a platform for such unspoken stars of Indian kitchens. Out of this came the inspiration to start Meengurry Memories, with their mum's banana chips as the first product. The brand and their vision has grown since then and they have now come up with TOCCO, a digital market place who want to create food products (not fresh meals). Annu is a sounding board and has a day job. Watch the episode to know more of this amazing story. The award winning #podcast #FoodocracyForHer by Kalyan Karmakar is India's longest running podcast featuring women entrepreneurs in the food and beverage business.  Please share the episode. Please click on like as it helps the video be discovered and please do subscribe to the channel to catch future episodes of the podcast.

Annie Bafna is a CA as many of her fellow Parsis are. What makes her rare in the community is that she is a vegetarian! She used to eat eggs once but has given that up apart from when she needs to do tastings at The Nutcracker Mumbai which has an egg-etarian menu. Like any good Parsi, Annie reveres eggs. This ensures that the scrambled eggs coming out of her kitchen are consistently creamy and dreamy. Annie is not a chef. She worked for 7 years in the finance industry and then 7 years in the design industry before she followed her longstanding dream of being in the food business by opening the first Nutcracker outlet in Mumbai's art district, Kalaghoda. This was 8 years back in October 2014. Since then she has opened 3 more outlets in Bandra West, Palladium and Jio World Drive with a menu that has much more than scrambled eggs. Be it her customers or her team, putting people first is Annie's success mantra. To know the secret behind the Nutcracker scrambled egg and the story behind the name Nutcracker, tune into the episode and sit back and listen to Annie tell her story. The award winning #podcast #FoodocracyForHer by Kalyan Karmakar is India's longest running podcast featuring women entrepreneurs in the food and beverage business.  Please share the episode. Please click on like as it helps the video be discovered and please do subscribe to the channel to catch future episodes of the podcast.

Nandini Deb grew up in Sovabazar, Kolkata, in a family obsessed with food. And music. Sounds like the average Bengali family? Well her family ran a restaurant and her grandmother was the first thumri singer in Kolkata. Nandini left Kolkata for Mumbai as she wanted to be a background singer. She has done many stage gigs across the country and the world and has given her voice for a Hindi film. She started a catering business from home with her partner Nirban Goswami during the pandemic. As time went by and things opened up, she realised that she enjoys this facet of her life and invested in a cloud kitchen. She has set up stalls at Bar Bank Juhu, the Bandra Durga Puja and Jio World Drive which have allowed her to interact with consumers in person. Her food line features Bengali (Habudubu), Awadhi (Lucknowi Chowk) and most recently DT (poi sandwiches). Singing remains her primary interest and career goal. How does she manage it all? Listen the episode to know more. 

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My interview with chef Kartikeya Ratan is by far the longest Foodocracy For Her podcast interview that I have done till date. When you listen to the story of a child from a doctor's family who wanted to be a chef and subsequently went to India's top hospitality school, worked in one of the top hotel kitchens in India and then one of the most inventive ones, went abroad and worked in top rated restaurants in the US and Europe where she got exposure to the diverse worlds of elevated dining, sustainability and organic produce, came back to India and worked with a very hip and forward thinking cafe 'un-chain,' first in Delhi and then Mumbai, before opening her Mexican cloud kitchen delivery and catering outfit, Kiki and Pastor, you will realise why neither of us realised the time spent. I came out of the interview inspired, as I am sure you will too. There were some internet glitches. Please treat it as the sauce that might spill out of eating a tacos. Embrace the experience ☺️ The award winning #podcast #FoodocracyForHer by Kalyan Karmakar is India's longest running podcast featuring women entrepreneurs in the food and beverage business.  Please share the episode. Please click on like as it helps the video be discovered and please do subscribe to the channel to catch future episodes of the podcast.

Misbah Mitha has run a successful business as a fashion designer for 33 years. The pandemic was the first time where she sat with no work. A friend and neighbour, who was well aware of her cooking skills, bumped into her during his walk one evening. He suggested that she become a home chef as that was the need of the hour. Her husband, a retired banker, was sceptical at first. That made Misbah even more determined! She discussed the idea with her school friends. All fans of her cooking. One suggested brand names for her. Another chose the final one: Tadka Tales.  The customers of her fashion business were the early adopters of her cooking.  As life comes back to near normal, Misbah's fashion business took off again. Her home chef business is thriving too and she now runs two businesses. The need of a friend's son who had gone to Amsterdam to study, made Misbah launch dehydrated gravies and that's where her future focus is. Though she knows she can never stop making her butter chicken, white chicken pulao, chicken mayo sandwiches and other crowd favourites.  Her husband? He became her biggest supporter once she decided to embark on this journey and is very happy to be her chief taster. 

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Keertida Phadke is a Pune girl who spent the formative years of her life in Tokyo before she moved to Pune with her parents. She went to Paris to study business management, joined L'Oreal and came back to India with them. This time to Mumbai. Her love for food made her quit and move to NYC to study to be a chef at the Natural Gourmet Institute. To know how from there she became the co-founder of Eat With Better, an enterprise that promotes sustainable eating by getting plucked and pre- cleaned unripe jackfruit to you, do catch the latest episode of #foodocracyforher featuring chef Keertida Phadke.

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