Mridula Baljekar is the best-selling author of many Indian cookbooks. Her first book The Complete Indian Cookbook sold more than 500,000 copies. After many years of training and building her career, Mridula became the Cookery Editor of Indian and Oriental Food & Drink magazine. She contributes regularly to magazines and newspapers in the UK, Australia, the United States and her native India. In the 1990s Mridula hit the headlines as 'the cook who spiced up a superstore' when she stepped in as Tesco's Indian food consultant and revolutionised their ready meal range. Highly respected as one of the UK's best-known Indian food writers, Mridula presented her own much acclaimed television series, Mridula's Indian Kitchen and Spice Trail for Carlton Food Network. She now runs Spice Route, a contemporary Indian restaurant, in Windsor, Berkshire, which has already won several prestigious awards. Her website is www.mridula.co.uk.
