Mallika Basu

Mallika Basu is a food writer, commentator and author of two cookbooks - Miss Masala: Real Indian Cooking for Busy Living and Masala: Indian Cooking for Modern Living. She is one of BBC Good Food's podcast hosts and writes recipes for Waitrose and others. Her newsletter More than Curry was shortlisted for the GFW's Online Food Writing Award (2023). Mallika is also a communications and strategic advisor, with a focus on food, people and planet (www.basuconsulting.co.uk). She is advisory board member for Be Inclusive Hospitality, a social enterprise promoting race equity, and Committee Lead for Diversity at the Guild.

Special subjects

Food, people and planet, Food, drink and hospitality, Food, culture and diversity

Languages spoken

English, Bengali, Hindi, the most basic Spanish

Advisory boards / Awards

Mallika's Substack newsletter More than Curry was shortlisted for the GFW's Online Food Writing Award (2023). She is advisory board member for Be Inclusive Hospitality, a social enterprise promoting race equity, and Committee Lead for Diversity at the Guild.

Commercial interests

Mallika is a communications and strategic advisor, with a focus on food, people and planet (www.basuconsulting.co.uk)

Mallika Basu