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Hi! Thanks for stopping by. My name is Simmi Sareen and I have been writing Bombay Foodie for the last 14 years.

My love for food started much earlier. It comes, I think, from growing up in Punjab, where there is a kulcha seller on every street. Or maybe it comes from growing up in a house where we started talking about what's for dinner while we were eating breakfast. My mother's a fabulous cook and my father has really clear ideas about what he likes to eat, so I got talking and thinking about food pretty early on. Then, when I started living in other cities and travelling to even more cities, I experienced all new flavours and ingredients.

All of this gets absorbed in the food I cook and eat. I love to cook simple food with bold flavours. I experiment with baking, And I am a huge fan of that newfangled school of cooking called molecular gastronomy.

This blog is my place to tell food stories. But more importantly, this is the gateway for me to meet fellow foodies. There are many ways you can be a part of the Bombay Foodie story:

- Have a heirloom recipe or a successful experiment to share?
- Want to join Bombay Foodie for a cookout or a review?
- Want to invite Bombay Foodie to taste your food or teach you a favourite recipe?

All you need to do is to email me at bombayfoodie [at] gmail [dot] com

Or tweet me @SimmSareen. I also post a lot of foodie pictures on instagram. I'm @SimmSareen there too. Do check them out.

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