Jehangir Mehta

Jehangir Mehta (born July 9, 1971 in Mumbai, India) is the executive chef and owner of New York City restaurants Graffiti, Me and You and Mehtaphor. He is also the author of the 2008 HarperCollins cookbook "Mantra: The Rules of Indulgence," offers a cooking class at his restaurant for children 4-14 called "Candy Camp" designed to build interest in more diverse foods, hosts exclusive in-home dinner parties and runs an event planning company.

In August 2009, Jehangir appeared on “Iron Chef America” on Food Network, and was the runner-up on the second season of “The Next Iron Chef” later in 2009.

Jehangir Mehta was born on July 9, 1971 to Petras and Kolly Mehta in Mumbai, India where he was raised. He is Parsi. After moving to the United States, he met and married his wife, Hinata Jambuserwala. They currently live in New York City where they are raising twins.

Jehangir holds a bachelor of arts in sociology from the University of Mumbai, which he pursued while also attending the Institute of Hotel Management Catering Technology and Applied Nutrition in Mumbai, India. Jehangir then moved to the United States to attend The Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York and graduated from there in 1995.

After graduating from culinary school in 1996, Jehangir began his career at L'Absinthe in New York City. From there, he moved on to Typhoon Brewery where he worked as the pastry chef to James Chew, formerly of Vong fame.