From wanting to make films to running her own restaurants. Kolkata's Chef Urvika Kanoi on #foodocracyforher

Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan Karmakar

Once upon a time, there was a Marwari girl from Kolkata who grew up in a family with no food restrictions. She went to Singapore to study film making after her school finals. Cooked for her friends there. Realised that she enjoyed cooking more than she enjoyed making films. Still in her teens, she went off on a journey of self discovery by attending a cooking course. She attained enlightenment there and went to Le Cordon Bleau, London, to study. She returned to Calcutta. Interned in top hotel kitchens. Realised that everyone treated her as her papa's daughter and decided that she did not want to be pampered by her bosses! She quit to start a Latin American restaurant in Kolkata which had the city eating out of her hands. It imploded in a couple of years thanks to investor issues and she decided that independent was the way for her. She set up her own contemporary European cafe in the city of tetrazini, fish a la Diana, chicken a la kiev and managed to finally shake Calcutta out of the age of classic French sauces. Not before she faced a lot of trouble from the para uncles and mastans whom she faced head on. She then decided to come to Mumbai and Bandra west at that, land of some of the most prime real estate in the world, and opened a small Latin American Cafe. She claims to be a non-baker, but my wife orders in her keto brownie almost everyday. I am and proud to present a global citizen from my home town, chef Urvika Kanoi of The Daily, Kolkata, and Cafe Duco, Mumbai, in the latest episode of #foodocracyforher #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.