Suvir Saran is a chef, cookbook author, educator as well as a farmer who specializes in bringing Indian cooking to the American kitchen. Suvir is the author of three celebrated cookbooks: Indian Home Cooking, American Masala, and Masala Farm, and the chef-creator of THC, The House of Celeste, a modern Indian restaurant in Gurgaon. His Slice of Life column appears every two weeks in the Sunday Eye magazine of The Indian Express, where he shares musings in poetic prose that inspire provocative thinking and raise questions on life and living. Suvir’s approachable style helped demystify Indian cuisine and earned him the first Michelin star awarded to an Indian restaurant in America.