Nisha Katona is the CEO, executive chef and development chef of Mowgli Street Food restaurants and founder of the Mowgli Trust charity, which donates over e500k each year. In 2014, she gave up the security of a 20-year career as a barrister and used all her savings to open the first Mowgli Street Food restaurant in Liverpool. Since then, Nisha has grown Mowgli Street Food to a much-loved chain of over 20 restaurants across the UK. Mowgli Street Food is ranked as a Top 10 Big Organisation on the Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2023 list, and according to Best Companies, is the 11th Best Company to Work For in the UK. Nisha received an MBE in the 2019 New Year Honours List for services in the food industry. She is the author of five cookbooks including the bestselling Mowgli Street Food, 30 Minute Mowgli and Meat Free Mowgli. She has been featured extensively as a business and food expert on the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 and Radio 4, and is a regular chef on ITV's This Morning and a judge on the BBC's Great British Menu and MasterChef. Find out more on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and Youtube- @mowglistreetfood
"""Nisha's book Bold is a true reflection of her personality, strong, passionate and most importantly, positive! Bold interpretations of modern classics with her own insightful crafted skills. Truly wonderful, unique and accessible."" — Tom Kerridge ""Nisha's innovative approach to flavour in this book is consistently surprising and mouth watering. She is a culinary wizard of the highest order."" — Ed Gamble ""What a refreshing and exciting new cookbook, full of classics with a dynamic spice twist. Exactly the food I love. Well done Nisha!"" — Daniel Green ""I LOVE THIS BOOK!!! Wonderful food, exciting recipes and a knowledgeable, skilled twist on flavour. This book is a shoutout to all the culinary explorers and nomads of the world. Those of us who just can't live without BIG flavours and cooking for the sheer love of it."" — Simon King, The Hairy Bikers ""Combinations of flavours excite our taste buds with every bite and enhance both the sweet and savoury elements of whatever the dish may be . . . if sweet and salty flavours are your idea of food heaven, [this is] just the cookbook for you."" — Stylist Magazine"