Meera Sodha
Meera Sodha is a London-based cook, cookbook author and Guardian columnist sharing Indian family food and vegetable-led recipes inspired by cuisines across Asia.
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- From
- Lincolnshire, England; Ugandan Indian family
- Based in
- London
- Work
- Cook, cookbook author and recipe columnist
- Breakout
- Made in India, her bestselling 2014 debut
- Column
- The New Vegan, begun in 2017
Mini bio
How it started.
Meera was born in Lincolnshire to Ugandan Indian parents. Wanting to preserve her family’s food traditions, she returned to her mother’s kitchen to record the recipes she had grown up with. Those dishes and their stories became Made in India in 2014.
From family recipes to a weekly column.
Made in India became a top-ten bestseller. Fresh India followed in 2016 and won the Observer Food Monthly award for best new cookbook in 2017. She began The New Vegan for the Guardian that same year. East, published in the UK in 2019, widened her focus to vegetable-led cooking across Asian cuisines.
Making Dinner.
Her fourth book, Dinner, arrived in 2024. In her 2025 TASTE interview, she described finding her way back to cooking after burnout and turning that experience into a book about getting a satisfying meal on the table.
Creditschronological, newest first
Cookbooks
- 2024DinnerAuthor
- 2019EastAuthor
- 2016Fresh IndiaAuthor
- 2014Made in IndiaAuthor
Recipe columns
- 2017–presentThe New VeganGuardian recipe columnist
Awards
Quotes
The ability to put a good dinner on the table has become my superpower and I want it to be yours too.Meera Sodha, Dinner, quoted on her official books page
Her introduction to the everyday cooking at the heart of Dinner.
Trivia
- Before her food-writing career, she worked at Innocent Drinks and set up a dating venture called Fancy an Indian.
- She brought homemade honey cake to her Table Manners recording.
- Made in India gathers recipes from three generations of her family.
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