IMPRESSIVE WOMEN OF INDIA - TARLA DALAL

Tarla Dalal  is a noted and best selling cookery author and host of cooking shows like "Tarla Dalal show" and "Cook It Up With Tarla Dalal". Her first cook book The Pleasures of Vegetarian Cooking was published in 1974. She has written a total of 30 titles, several of which have been translated in various languages like Hindi, Gujrati, Marathi, Bengali and even Dutch and Russian! The total sales of her cookbooks exceed 1 million copies. She also runs the largest Indian food web site (http://www.tarladalal.com) and publishes a bi-monthly magazine, Cooking & More. Her cooking show is broadcast all over South East Asia, India, the Gulf, the United Kingdom and United States of America. Her range of ready-to-cook mixes, 'Tarla Dalal Mixes' was acquired by International Bestfoods Ltd (IBL) in 2000. Though she writes about many cuisines and healthy cooking, she specializes in Indian cuisine especially Gujarati cuisine. She was awarded the Padma Shri by Government of India in 2007.