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If it weren’t for the pandemic, we would have been reading a book penned by this British chef, consultant and columnist about his 20 years in India
You completed 20 years in india in 2020. How did the journey begin?
I was working at Quaglino’s in London, one of the busiest restaurants in Europe, when we got an invitation to be a guest restaurant at the World Gourmet Summit in Singapore. That was in 2000. It was here that I met Indian entrepreneur Rohit Khattar and arrived in Delhi on his invitation. After a short stint in Delhi, I would have joined a restaurant in New York but then 9/11 happened and suddenly I was without a job. I shifted to Calcutta [Kolkata now] to join The Park. Apart from the Kolkata property, I also worked for their Chennai and Delhi properties. I left The Park eventually but settled down in Kolkata. My