Ranjan Dey is passionate about promoting Indian culture and cuisine. He has over 35 years of experience in running Indian restaurants in India, Hong Kong, Bangkok and San Francisco. He is the chef and owner of the New Delhi Restaurant in San Francisco.
New Delhi Restaurant celebrated its 20th anniversary in the same location in November of 2007. The New York Times has voted New Delhi Restaurant as the best Indian Restaurant. Former President Clinton has visited Ranjan several times when he is in town to meet with the local Indian leaders. Julia Child, Chef Paul Prudhomme, Graham Kerr, Martin Yan, and Jerry De Vecchio, Senior Food Editor of Sunset Magazine are some of celebrity chefs with whom Ranjan loves to share his passion of Indian culture and cuisine.
Ranjan also owns New World Spices. He dug deep into the history of India to get the inspiration to create six spice blends. He searched for the favorite dishes of three kings and three queens representing six different regions and from that inspiration created each spice blends. They are available at www.newworldspices.com, and in gourmet stores nationwide.
He also loves teaching Indian cooking in his signature style of "Speed Scratch Cooking" and "Free Style Cooking". It is tasty, healthy, quick, and easy. But foremost, Ranjan is a storyteller. He loves stories about Indian culture, cuisine, and travel adventure. My India! With Ranjan Dey provides him the perfect platform to infect the viewers with entertainment, education, and excitement about his India. Close to Ranjan’s heart is philanthropy. He firmly believes in ”Sharing The Spice Of Life”
Ranjan is also the founder of Compassionate Chefs Café (www.compassionatechefs.org). He has worked with more than one hundred non-profit charitable organizations in the city. His top five favorites are: The After School Program of TNDC, the school project at the Gandhi Ashram in New Delhi, Donors Choose program for the school kids, Narika, and Mo’s Kitchen for the Glide Memorial Church. Ranjan is also an educator, he believes that we are all citizens of the world.
His diversity program about India can be described as an edutainment to celebrate the diversity in the American society. Ranjan believes that education plays the most vital role in the achievement of freedom from any prejudices. Education also allows us to have a broader world vision. (For more information about Ranjan Dey go to www.newdelhirestaurant.com and www.newworldspices.com)
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