MAKING DELICIOUS SYNONYMOUS WITH HEALTHY

Archana Doshi's new book of menu plans has everything you need to plan meals and really revel in food.

- Primrose Monteiro-D’Souza

Software engineer. Yoga teacher. Food guru to over 10 million users across her website Archana's Kitchen, YouTube channel, social media pages and mobile app. It seems a perfectly logical journey to Archana Doshi. "My love for food and cooking started at a very young age," she tells us. "At the age of eight, I began cooking with my mother and have never looked back. Even though I was formally trained in software engineering, my heart remained in food. Over the years, as I cooked for friends and family, the single most important problem that they would share with me was that they found cooking too difficult and intimidating. I would tell them, 'It's not difficult; just start experimenting with ingredients and things will slowly start falling into place.' I came to realise that it was easy for me to say that but hard for them to do. I founded Archana's Kitchen in November 2007 and, today, it is a leading recipe and food discovery website that gives the world credible and confident DIY solutions for everyday cooking, empowering people to easily cook nutritious food."