Masterchef Tarla Dalal is no more

Mumbai, 6 November 2013

Tarla Dalal(77), India’s topmost mastrchef today morning passed away due to heart attack at her residence in Mumbai. Tarla Dalal was famous across the nation for her writing and TV shows on varieties of recipes. She has written over 100 cook books that have together sold over 3 million copies. Her first recipe book was published in year 1974.

Tarlal Dalal was awarded Padmashri in year 2007. In year 2006 she was awarded ‘woman of the year’. She received more than 10 awards in the area of cooking.

Born and brought up in Pune, India, Tarla Dalal married Naveen Dalal in 1960 and moved to Bombay (now Mumbai) after her marriage. She started taking cooking classes from her home in 1966, and this led to the publication of her first cook book, The Pleasures of Vegetarian Cooking in 1974.Her range of ready-to-cook mixes, ‘Tarla Dalal Mixes’ was acquired by International Bestfoods Ltd (IBL) in 2000.

During her visit to Ahmedabad in August 2009, Tarlaben had said, “Before my marriage I had not much knowledge about cooking. My husband was from America and he was a great food lover. I had not heard about the words like soup, pudding or desert, forget about cooking them.”

“After my wedding, just to please my husband, I joined cooking class and started making food. It was my husband’s taste because of which I became a cooking queen.”

“I didn’t know how to make khaari biscuit. I could make it only after 20 efforts.”

“Today there’s growing craze of junk-food among youngsters and children. Actually they should be offered same taste, but with better ingredients.”

RIP Tarla Dalal. She lives on through the taste of her wonderful recipes. Condolences to her family.

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) November 6, 2013

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