Welcome to our newest member of the Masalamommas Food & MirchMasala Team!
Food Contributor
We are thrilled to have the 2009 Food Network’s Chopped Champion award winner, Chef Roshni Gurnani join our Mirch Masala section! A native of Canada, Roshni has always been interested and passionate about food. Since the age of 7 she wanted to be a chef and her career began at the age of 13. She started her path to become a chef at a local diner bussing tables and prepping vegetables.
After graduating from The culinary Institute of Canada, Roshni began her travels around the world to gain knowledge and experience in different cultures and foods. She has cooked in 5-star hotels, Country Clubs, restaurants, colleges and private homes is Asia, UK, Canada and the US.
Today Roshni is a mom and a highly innovated and passionate chef with over 15 years of industry experience. She has a unique fusion style of cooking, blending different cultures together. Her hard work and dedication has brought her to where she is today.
In 2009 Roshni was awarded Chopped Champion on the hit Food Network show Chopped. In 2009 she was also the first Chef in Boston to introduce healthy restaurant style quality food into college campuses and was featured in the Boston Globe Newspaper. This triggered the healthy food scene throughout colleges in Massachusetts. Roshni’s wide travels and vast knowledge and hunger for the culinary world has awarded her as being one of the top 5 Indian chefs in USA by India Currents magazine, in 2011.
In 2011 Roshni was also invited to be the featured chef for Masala, Mendhi, Masti in Toronto Canada, North America’s largest South Asian festival. In 2012 Roshni was a contestant on the very popular FOX TV show Hell’s Kitchen with Michelin Star chef Gordon Ramsey. She was the only chef among 18 that Chef Ramsey addressed as a “passionate, well rounded chef that blended flavors magically”.
Recently, Roshni had been asked to join 5Starchefs.com
Today Roshni is Executive Chef and Culinary Chef instructor at The Art Institute of Houston. She is also a chef consultant and private chef. She feels that “there is never an end to flavors and foods.”
“Food is a journey not a destination.” Well said Roshni! Here’s to her journey with us at masalamommas!
You can learn follow Roshni at:
Her Website: chefrosh.com
On Twitter @ChefRoshniHK
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