Asma moved to Cambridge from Calcutta in 1991 to join her academic husband. She is Rajput on her father’s side and Bengali on her mother’s. After studying law, Asma went on todo a PhD in Law at King’s College London. Cooking was her passion and she began her food career in 2012 as a supper club in her home. In 2015, she opened a pop-up in a Soho pub and Darjeeling Express the restaurant opened its doors inJune 2017. A year later, her cookbook “Asma’s Indian Kitchen” was published by Pavilion. The book was the winner of the U.K. category for Food Publishing inIndian Cuisine in the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. Asma’s Indian Kitchen was also shortlisted for best debut cookbook in the Fortnum & Mason 2019awards. Asma is the first British chef to feature in Netflix’s Chef’s Table. The series’ sixth season, which includes Asma’s episode, was nominated for an Emmy in the Outstanding Documentary section. The Evening Standard listed Asma in The Progress 1000 as one of London’s most influential people 2019. Asma has been included in the eighth edition of the GG2 Power List –profiling Britain’s 101 most influentialAsians. She is am an ambassador and helped launch the Ramadan appeal of IslamicRelief this year. As part of that campaign, Asma travelled to refugee camps inJordan. Just this summer, in collaboration with Lotus Flower, Asma established an all female cafe in Northern Iraq in a Yazidi camp for girl and female survivors who had been captured by ISIS. Asma is married and has two boys.
.svg){kind=small}
