Meera Sodha
Meera Vrajlal Sodha is an English columnist and cookbook author. Her second cookbook Fresh India won the Observer Food Monthly Award for Best New Cookbook, while her vegan column in The Guardian won a Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Award.
Early life
Sodha was born in Scunthorpe to Ugandan Indian parents of Gujarati heritage and grew up in a farming village in rural Lincolnshire. Sodha attended Hymers College in Hull. She graduated from the London School of Economics in 2003 with a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Relations.Career
Sodha's debut cookbook Made in India, Cooked in Britain: Recipes from an Indian Family Kitchen was published in 2014. Made in India was shortlisted for the André Simon Food & Drink Book Award.This was followed by Sodha's second cookbook and first vegetarian work Fresh India: 130 Quick, Easy and Delicious Vegetarian Recipes for Every Day in 2016. Fresh India won the Observer Food Monthly Award for Best New Cookbook and was shortlisted for the André Simon Food & Drink Book Award.
In 2017, Sodha started writing a column in The Guardian titled The New Vegan. For the column, Sodha won Best Cookery Writer at the 2018 Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards. She was nominated in this category for a second time in 2021.
Sodha's fourth cookbook East: 120 Vegan and Vegetarian Recipes from Beijing to Bangalore was published in 2019. East became a Bookstat e-book bestseller.
In 2024, Fig Tree acquired the rights to publish Sodha's fourth cookbook Dinner: 120 Vegan and Vegetarian Recipes for the Most Important Meal of the Day. Dinner'' was shortlisted for the André Simon Food & Drink Book Award.