Meera Sodha is the Guardian 's 'New Vegan' columnist and author of Fresh India, which won the Observer Food Monthly Best New Cookbook Award 2017. In 2018 she was given The Guild of Food Writers 'Cookery Writing Award' and named the Fortnum & Mason Cookery Writer of the Year for her work in the Guardian. Her first book, Made In India , was a top ten bestseller. Meera Sodha cooks, writes and lives in London with her husband and daughter.