Meera Sodha was born in Lincolnshire to Ugandan Indian parents and speaks of having been surrounded by a wonderful assortment of all things delicious from a very early age. A love for her ancestors’ food and the desire to keep their food traditions alive led Meera to capture the recipes of her childhood. These family recipes and the stories that came with them were the inspiration for her first cookbook "Made in India" which went on to become a Top 10 best seller and was named a book of the year by both The Times and the Financial Times. The equally acclaimed " Fresh India" and "East" then followed.
Most recently, Meera set herself the task of cooking a simple dinner, the only criteria being that it had to be led by her stomach – it had to be something she really wanted to eat or cook. If it was good, Meera wrote it down in an orange notebook, which slowly filled up. And slowly, Meera started to feel the life in her bones and the hunger in her belly and realised the power this simple act of cooking and eating dinner with friends and family had in her life. This process was the genesis of "Dinner" .
Meera also writes a weekly vegan cookery column for The Guardian (which won The Guild of Food Writers and Fortnum & Mason’s Best Cookery Writer Award) and has been featured in a wide range of publications from Vogue to The New York Time
Sheila Dillon is a food journalist and broadcaster who began her career writing for Food Monitor, a New York–based food magazine, before joining BBC Radio 4’s The Food Programme as a reporter, later serving as producer and its regular presenter. Born in Lancashire, she was raised in a farming family and early on engaged with food through both her rural upbringing and interest in the feminist movement.
Dillon has produced pioneering episodes on controversies such as BSE (mad cow disease), GM foods, food irradiation, the organic movement, UPF and globalization. Her work has earned her several prestigious awards as well a number of honorary doctorates.
