Namita Moolani Mehra

Namita Moolani Mehra is food-obsessed, Facebook-obsessed, and family-obsessed. She spends her time cooking, writing, helping both Fortune 500 and start-up brands develop their digital marketing strategies, and chasing her squealing toddler around their apartment. Namita is not a trained chef and has in fact been a marketing strategist throughout her professional life, including working at Facebook for almost 5 years in both Manhattan and Singapore. Prior to Facebook she spent seven years in the creative ad agency world of New York City. Her professional career has given Namita a keen understanding of what consumers want and how to connect with them. She has been a passionate foodie ever since she was a little girl, helping her mom out in the kitchen and then self-trained when she lived in the US. Namita is also a writer and had her own column in a national youth magazine. She is cares deeply about impacting social change and is involved in a number of different charities and pro-bono consulting for non-profits. An entrepreneur and change-maker at heart, Namita is the founder and moderator of the Indian Spicebox page on Facebook, which has well over 50,000 fans. Namita wants to bring the simpler and healthier side of Indian food into more home kitchens via easy and fun recipes. She is focused on making Indian cooking more accessible and non-intimidating, which inspired not only the creation of the book but led to the development of her unique ‘Spicebox Kit’ product which combines the cookbook with 9 essential spices you need to make all the recipes, packaged in a beautiful spicebox. Namita is a true global citizen and avid traveler. She was born in a remote village in Nigeria, grew up in the UK and India, studied in Chicago, and worked in New York City where she lived (in both Manhattan and across the river) for ten years. She currently lives on the foodie paradise island of Singapore with her husband and son. For all media enquiries contact: M +65 9363 5998 E info@indian-spicebox.com W www.indian-spicebox.com