#blahvsfood meets the Legends: Camellia and Namita Panjabi
What do you do when you’ve done it all? Camellia Punjabi went to Cambridge. She was the first woman to join the Tata Admistrative Services. She was part of the group that helped build Taj Hotels as we know it today. She helped create the world of restaurants in India as we know it today. She introduced India to Szechuan food. She introduced India to Italian food. She introduced India to Thai food. If that wasn’t enough, she set up India’s first high end restaurants serving South Indian regional food, restaurants like Karavali and Raintree and Konkan Cafe… restaurants that endure decades later in a world where five years is a lifetime. And if that wasn’t enough, she wrote stunningly illustrated cookbooks that made the world realise that Indian food could be as complex and beautiful as the best French or Japanese cuisine. For most people, that’s a legacy to last many lifetimes. But around the time that most of her peers were settling into a life of quiet retiremen...
