Vikas Khanna

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Vikas Khanna

Chef Vikas Khanna with Riyo Mori, Miss Universe 2007 at amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research in New York City
Born November 14, 1971 (1971-11-14) (age 36)
Amritsar, India
Cooking style Indian cuisine
Education Welcomgroup Graduate School of Hotel Administration
Current restaurant(s)

Vikas Khanna (born November 14, 1971) is a famous Indian chef, restaurateur, food writer, and humanitarian based in New York City.

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Life and career

Born in Amritsar, India to Davinder and Bindu Khanna, Vijas Khanna began his culinary experience as a helper in his grandmother's kitchen, and learned the art of cooking and the use of spices from her. At the age of 12, he was supplying kitchenware to Amritsar Club.

He began developing recipes at a very young age and opened Lawrence Gardens Banquets to host weddings and family functions when he was 16. He graduated from the Welcomgroup Graduate School of Hotel Administration in 1994, and established SAANCH, a cultural festival gala, to bring together various foods and traditions from different parts of India. This festival has been an important event in the college's calendar. He also learnt the art of sculpting stone and wood in Jaipur, Mysore, Udipi, and Sagar (Karnataka). He has worked for the Taj, Oberoi, Welcomgroup, and Leela Group of Hotels, with some of the most influential chefs of India.

Khanna moved to New York in December, 2000 and started working as a dishwasher. He worked his way up and soon became the Executive Chef of Salaam Bombay Restaurant in New York. He is a consultant to many restaurants in the United States, and has his own line of packaged foods, Gourmetgurus.

He has studied at Cornell University, Culinary Institute of America, and New York University. He frequently lectures at many universities around the country.

Sakiv

Vikas Khanna launched the small company SAKIV (South Asian Kid's Infinite Vision) to reach out to eye foundations around the world in an effort to create awareness about vision disorders in children.

Vision of Palate is his award winning workshop developed to educate people with visual disbilities about the sense of taste, flavor and aromas.

Cooking for Life

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New York Chefs Cooking for Life was founded to organize tasting events with some of the top chefs of New York to help raise money and awareness for different relief efforts around the world like Tsunami, Gulf Coast Hurricane Disaster, South Asian Earthquake and many more. Chicago Chefs Cooking for Life and San Francisco Chefs Cooking for Life are the other chapters of the organization.

World Chefs Cooking for Life is a series of culinary events being hosted at the World Wonders to advance SATH's (Society for Accessible Travel and Hospitality) mission to create awareness for the needs of people with disabilities. The first event of the series, The Living Pyramids was hosted at the Pyramids of Giza on July 20th, 2006.

"Soul of Taj", the second event in the Cooking for Life series was hosted on February 4th, 2008 at the Taj Mahal, Agra India, to raise money for Sankara Eye Foundation's mission to eradicate curable blindness in India by 2020.

Books

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Vikas Khanna
  • Ayurveda - The Science of Food and Life
  • Mango Mia - Celebrating the tropical world of Mangoes
  • The Cuisine of Gandhi - Based on the beliefs of the Legend
  • The Spice Story of India
  • New York Chefs Cooking for Life - Cookbook
  • Modern Indian Cooking

Awards and recognitions

Khanna has received acclaim for his cooking style from the James Beard Foundation, and received several awards, including the "Access to Freedom Award", in 2005 from SATH, previously awarded to George W. Bush and HRH Prince Charles, and the The Shining Star Award from Just One Break, Inc. previously received by Christopher Reeve and Ray Charles.

He has also received a proclamation from the Council of the City of New York for his outstanding contribution to the city, and was chosen New Yorker of the Week by NY1.

Media appearances

Khanna was interviewed on ABC News for his Global Culinary Events, and on the New York Daily News's "Big Town Big Dreams". Additionally, on September 2007, Vikas Khanna was featured as the consultant chef on the Gordon Ramsay TV show Kitchen Nightmares on FOX.

Quotes

  • "Disability is the inability to see ability."
  • "Water is one of the basic needs of survival of mankind and water can destroy it too. That is the power of NATURE. But there is an even more powerful dimension of NATURE which is a blessing to humans; courage, intelligence, compassion and the power to stand again"

Bibliography

External links

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