Chennai

While discussing with them, they suggested Parul the idea of bringing out an authentic Gujarati cookbook. After four years of work, Parul launched her coffee table cookbook titled Parul’s Magic — Everyday Delicious easy-to-cook Gujarati dishes. “I used to meet S Muthiah, chronicler of Madras, for work and one day, I casually told him that I wished to write a cookbook. He encouraged me to write a book but I wasn’t quite sure about it. Cooking a dish and writing about it in detail are different. A few months later, Muthiah sir introduced me to food writer Chandra Padmanabhan. I met her and she started guiding me. She gave suggestions/ corrections and made me more aware of how the cookbook should be written; she explained the dos and don’t. While preparing the dishes I made sure that the ingredients are universally available,” says Parul. The cookbook has 142 recipes with 45 pictures.