Rude food by Vir Sanghvi: The legend of Jiggs Kalra

Hindustan Times | ByVir Sanghvi

Jun 15, 2019 11:05 PM IST

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He was never a chef but he created the cult of the celebrity chef and transformed restaurant cuisine forever

All too often we don’t realise how much esteem the world has for our friends until it is almost too late. I was reminded of this a week ago when Jiggs Kalra went off to that great kitchen in the sky.

Irrespespective of the fact that Zorawar Kalra’s (standing) success was his own, he never stopped crediting his father Jiggs Kalra

Jiggs came along at a time when Indian cuisine needed someone to take it to global standards. He became that person.

Jiggs Kalra worked closely with Manjit Gill to create a new restaurant called Dum Pukht

Jiggs Kalra’s cookbook Prashad is a treasure trove of recipes from the most talented Indian chefs

Jiggs worked closely with ITC Maurya’s chef Manjit Gill

Dum Pukht revolutionised Indian food, thus popularising the use of single servings of purdah biryanis

Chef Imtiaz Qureshi was Jiggs’s first choice for Dum Pukht

With the success of Masala Library, that uses Jiggs’s name, his reputation soared among a new generation

Jiggs (centre) with (anticlockwise from right) his wife Lovjeet, son Zorawar and daughter-in-law Dildeep

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