12 June 2025 Camellia Panjabi About the Author Camellia Panjabi is the author of the world’s best-selling book on Indian Food - 50 Great Curries of India. It has sold close to two million copies. Born in Mumbai, Camellia read Economics at Cambridge and went on to become the Marketing Director of Taj hotels, India’s most prestigious hotel group. With a lifelong passion for food, Camellia helped create several restaurants for these premier hotels, featuring little-known regional Indian cuisines, as well as Thai and Sichuan restaurants. And introduced street food into the legendary Taj Mahal Hotel Bombay in the 1970s. Camellia opened the Bombay Brasserie in London in 1982 for the Taj. She is now involved in running some of London’s most famous Indian restaurants – Amaya, Chutney Mary, Veeraswamy, and the unusual Masala Zones – the restaurant that launched the concept of street food into Britain, and the Thali as a popular genre of dining into the country. Now her second cookbook “Vegetables the Indian Way” celebrates both the traditional and contemporary vegetable & lentil preparations of the country, featuring dishes from all over India – suitable for eating simply at home, for snacking and cooking for a celebration. With stunning large pictures of how each dish can be served.
