'Preparing a meal is almost like writing Poetry, Love the feeling'

- Vikas Khanna

India's most celebrated chef and a good poet - Vikas Khanna, living in New York City, started an initiative in April to create a supply chain to ensure dry ration is procured and distributed to orphanages, old-age homes and leprosy centers as the coronavirus cases increased in India and the government implemented a lockdown to control it.

He Says:

"My hope is solidarity. Solidarity is everything. We can beat corona and we should all be united to figure out how to defeat this virus,"
"I'm focused on ensuring how to reach as many more people as possible to help them in these challenging times,"
"I'm not doing any favour. I'm giving back to my country. Apart from the kitchen, a chef has a huge responsibility and this gave an opportunity to me" to fulfill my responsibility.


A young boy in Amritsar learns to cook in his grandmother's kitchen while doing sewa at the legendary kitchens of the Golden Temple. He works as a delivery boy for his father's video cassette library, makes blankets, cooks at weddings and opens a catering business in the back of his house at the age of seventeen.The boy, now a young chef, makes a journey of a lifetime to New York, only to face stiffer challenges'that of being homeless and facing discrimination almost every single day. Buried he may have been, under failure and hopelessness, but nothing could keep him down, for he had the power of passion and perseverance and the strength of skill and self-belief.He rose and how! This inspirational and page-turning account of the transformational journey of India's most celebrated chef, Vikas Khanna, is a priceless gift'a gift of hope and fulfilling one's dreams'for you and for everyone you love. in 2018 he launched his poetry book - Poeatry | Poems from the Heart of Farms and a Kitchen.

This collection of poetry combines a love for food with the magic of the written word and is not just a tribute to the raw materials that goes into making a culinary delight but also an evocative whiff of the sights, sounds and smells that make up India. Seen through Vikas' eyes each individual element -be it the simple seed, a stick of cinnamon or a summer's day-is brought to life and takes on hues unimagined. Coming from the skilled hands of Vikas Khanna, Poeatry cannot help but be a carefully crafted work of art.