Sanjeev Kapoor

Padma Shri Awardee,
Culinary Icon, Humanitarian & Entrepreneur
Every child and adult from the 90’s, would have watched the path-breaking, longest-running cookery show in Asia, ‘Khana Khazana’, by Chef Extraordinaire Sanjeev Kapoor. With that constant smile on his face while cooking and his famous dialogue ‘Namak Swad Anusar’, Chef Sanjeev Kapoor soon became everyone’s most favorite Chef and a household name. TV show host, author of bestselling cookbooks, restaurant owner and winner of several culinary honours, Master Chef Sanjeev Kapoor’s innovations in Indian cuisine are sought after in India and abroad. He has the proud distinction of being the only chef in the world to have his own television channel – FoodFood.
A self-confessed gadget freak, Sanjeev channelled his love for technology to create Wonderchef, a premier cookware and kitchen appliances brand that brought about a revolution to the Indian kitchen through its innovative products and continues to do so. In addition to this, he is also the co-founder of Tiny Chef, a company working on culinary AI and ML, as well as launched his own online academy sanjeevkapooracademy.com.

Recently, Chef Sanjeev Kapoor hosted the world’s first cookery show in Metaverse. The event called, ‘Nutraverse’ had his digital avatar cook three healthy recipes using Nutralite products.

He is living his dream of making Indian cuisine the number one in the world and empowering women to become more self-sufficient, through the power of cooking. For his contribution to Indian Cuisine, he was awarded with the Padma Shri in 2017, one of India’s highest civilian awards. Winner of the Best Executive Chef title in India, Mercury Gold Award at IFCA Geneva and one of the 7 chefs in the world with a case study published on him by Harvard Business School, Sanjeev Kapoor is credited with giving credibility and recognition to the profession of cooking in India.