The Gourmand World Cookbook Award-winner Rashmi Uday singh, is synonymous with Good Food for the past two decades with Good Food for the past two decades. Having studied law and management, she worked with the prestigious Indian Revenue Service, which she quit after 15 years as Deputy Commissioner to follow her creative muse in newsprint and television.

Books, Columns and Academy

Ms Singh is an author of 33 books and is a regular columnist with The Time of India, Bombay Times and Chennai Times. It is for her extraordinarily popular Good Food Guide that she is most celebrated (India’s first- ever city-restaurant guide). This handy, first-of-its-kind, insider’s guide to Good Food established Singh as the nation’s most clued-in commentator on all things edible. She also runs the highly esteemed “Rashmi Uday Singh’s Good Food Academy” and used to run “Rashmi Uday Singh’s Good Food Galleries”.

Television Series

Having trained with the BBC in London, Singh completed a year-long successful TV series on DD Metro, “Health Today” and the popular food and travel show “Foodie Fundas with Rashmi Uday Singh”. Her TV show “Delicious with Rashmi Uday Singh” was broadcasted on ET NOW and “Foodie Awards” on TIMES NOW. She was selected to be on Gordon Ramsay’s South India guide and gas also filmed with Gordon for Channel 4 “Great Escapes”.

International Work

Chairman of the Central Asia region of the London-based “World’s 50 Best Rest Restaurant Academy”, she has been on the jury for “The World’s Best Woman Chef” contest in France. She is the contributing editor of the Asia Miele, the Asian restaurant guide. Singh has represented India in international seminars and discussions in New York, London, Singapore and California, and is a Chaine des Rotisseurs. Her most recent, first-of-its-kind book (the world’s first) A Vegetarian in Paris... The Ultimate Vegetarian Guide to Paris, has been in great demand and is already in first reprint.

Recent Awards

Winner of “The Best of the Best” World Gourmand Awards in Paris (2009), in Frankfurt (2008) and in Kuala Lumpur (2006) for her books, she has been awarded the “Experience Singapore” award in Singapore and the “Atout France Best Media Personality Award 2010” by the French government. The Gourmand World Cookbook Award has nominated “The Times Food Guide-Mumbai” as “India Winner” for 2011. Singh was also given the “Gr8 Woman Achievers” award 2011 for “Culinary Literature” in New Delhi.