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Madhur Jaffrey

Madhur Jaffrey
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Madhur Jaffrey at a book signing in Vancouver in October 2010
Native name मधुर जाफ़री
Born Madhur Bahadur
(1933-08-13) 13 August 1933 (age 83)
Civil Lines, Delhi, British India
Residence New York City, US
London, UK
Education Miranda House
BA English, 1953
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Acting Diploma with Honours, 1957
Height 5'2" (158 cm)
Spouse(s) Saeed Jaffrey (1958–1966)
Sanford Allen (1969-present)
Children Zia Jaffrey (b. 1959)
Meera Jaffrey (b. 1960)
Sakina Jaffrey (b. 1962)
Website www.madhur-jaffrey.com
Culinary career
Cooking style Indian

Madhur Jaffrey, CBE (born Bahadur, 13 August 1933) is an Indian-born actress, food and travel writer, and television personality. She is recognized for bringing Indian cuisine to the Western world with her debut cookbook, An Invitation to Indian Cooking (1973), which was inducted into the James Beard Foundation’s Cookbook Hall of Fame in 2006. She has written over a dozen cookbooks and appeared on several related television programs, the most notable of which was Madhur Jaffrey's Indian Cookery, which premiered in the UK in 1982. She is the food consultant at Dawat, considered by many food critics to be among the best Indian restaurants in New York City.

She played an instrumental part in bringing together film makers James Ivory and Ismail Merchant and acted in several of their films such as Shakespeare Wallah (1965), for which she won the Silver Bear for Best Actress award at the 15th Berlin International Film Festival. She has appeared in dramas on radio, stage and television.

In 2004 she was named an honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire in recognition of her services to cultural relations between the United Kingdom, India and the United States, through her achievements in film, television and cookery.

Her childhood memoir of India during the final years of the British Raj, Climbing the Mango Trees, was published in 2006.

Madhur Jaffrey was born Madhur Bahadur on 13 August 1933 in Civil Lines, Delhi, into a Kayastha Hindu joint family. She is the fifth of six children of Lala Raj Bans Bahadur (1899–1974) and his wife, Kashmiran Rani (1903–1971). Madhur's grandfather, Rai Bahadur Raj Narain (1864–1950), had built a sprawling family compound, named Number 7 Raj Narain Marg, by the Yamuna river amid fruit orchards.


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