Masterchef shipra khanna biography books

With her hastily yet impeccably prepared native tandoori chicken dish, Chef Shipra Khanna became the winner of season two of MasterChef India, the Indian spinoff of the American hit show MasterChef. She said at the time she would donate a portion of her winnings to a school near her hometown serving special needs children; as part of her prize, she also won a contract to host her own show on Star Plus as well as a three-night, four-day London, England vacation.

But this is all trimmings, as Khanna may describe it, for, as any sufficiently intimate biography of Shipra Khanna will express, cooking did more than earn her a paycheck—it literally saved her life. She has one sibling, a brother named Akshay Khanna, who helps their father run his jewelry shop. Shipra attended Loreta convent school in Upper Kaithu followed by St.

There, she completed a degree program in Economics and Psychology. When the age of Shipra Khanna was still young, she was married to an abusive husband, both psychologically and physically, with whom she spent several miserable and tortured years. Except for her two kids, cooking was her only source of comfort and escape during those trying times of repeated, ongoing domestic abuse.

Enrolling in cooking classes helped her channel and reduce her stress during this chaotic period. What started out as a coping mechanism and form of self-therapy turned into her one-way ticket to freedom and empowerment. A busy year for Khanna, indeed, also found her training chefs along with travel guru Yatra in the Nicobar and Andaman Islands.

In Spice Route, Shipra explores different regions and different cuisines, bringing some old favourites and some new discoveries but all packed with loads of.

She opened her first restaurant H. In it, she talks about the stigma following girls into male-dominated careers and implores parents to empower their daughters with messages of self-respect. In , the Miss Russian LA pageant invited her to be one of its judges. Lesser-known fun facts about Shipra Khanna include her non-cooking-related passions for yoga, meditation, traveling and photography.

She loves architecture as well, and notes the interrelationships between it and cooking. An avid environmental advocate, she also campaigns frequently for planting trees throughout India.