About this episode

Nisha Katona shares her travel experiences and culinary journey, exploring themes of identity and culture.

Hello and welcome to a brand new season of The Travel Diaries. It’s great to be back! I couldn’t think of a more joyful guest to kick off the season than Nisha Katona. A former child protection barrister turned restaurateur, food writer and TV presenter, Nisha is the founder of the hugely successful Mowgli Street Food restaurants, the author of several cookbooks, including her newest release, The Curry Bible, and was a judge on the BBC’s Great British Menu.  In this episode, Nisha describes herself as a “culinary evangelist and anthropologist”, and food is the thread running through her extraordinary Travel Diaries. We journey from childhood holidays in Mallorca and the tastes that first awakened her curiosity, to Beijing, her ancestral home of Varanasi, the temples and night markets of Cambodia, and her love for the Amalfi Coast. Our conversation travelled far beyond holidays, taking in family, identity, faith, grief and the ways in which travel helps us understand both the world and ourselves. Destination Recap: Mallorca, Spain Taunus Therme, Bad Homburg, Germany Beijing, China Forbidden City, Beijing, China Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India River Ganges, Varanasi, India Siem…

People in this episode

Host: Holly Rubenstein

Guest: Nisha Katona

Topics covered

• food
• travel
• identity
• family
• culture
• cuisine
• personal stories

Keywords

• Nisha Katona
• Mowgli Street Food
• The Curry Bible
• travel
• food
• identity
• Great British Menu
• Mallorca
• Beijing
• Amalfi Coast

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Mowgli Street Food

Books & works: The Curry Bible

Places: Mallorca, Beijing, Varanasi, Cambodia, Amalfi Coast, Taunus Therme, River Ganges, Angkor Wat, Jeju Island, Mount Vesuvius

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