Instagram is home to more vegan cooks than we can count, but Meera Sodha definitely deserves all the attention coming her way. She’s been surrounded by all things delicious from a very young age, and she’s now using her recipes to pay homage to her roots.
Sodha was born in Lincolnshire, but her parents hail from Uganda and India. She grew up surrounded by the vibrant colors, flavors, and aromas of Indian cuisine, and her parents were the ones who inspired by to explore its diversity.
“Cooking is a huge part of my heritage and my love for my ancestors’ food and desire to keep their food traditions alive led me to journey back to my mother’s kitchen to capture the recipes from my childhood,” she explains on her official website.
Sodha went on to become one of the most influential voices on the modern vegetarian food scene, and she’s using her body of work to pay homage to the foods she grew up with.
Her first cookbook Made in India came out in 2014, and it paid homage to her family recipes and stories. Her second book Fresh India followed a similar formula, while its follow-up East featured vegan and vegetarian recipes inspired by Asian cuisine in general. Sodha also writes a weekly column for The Guardian, and she worked with many more high-profile publications.
