Winner of “The Best of the Best” Gourmand World Cookbook Awards in Paris (2009) in Frankfurt (2008) and Kuala Lumpur (2006) for her books, Rashmi Uday Singh is synonymous with Good Food for the past two decades. Having studied law and management, she worked with the prestigious Indian Revenue Service as Deputy Commissioner which she quit after fifteen years to follow her creative muse in newsprint and television.

Books, columns and Academy

Author of 28 books and regular columnist for “The Times of India” "Bombay Times' and "Chennai Times," it is for her extraordinarily popular Good Food Guide that she is most celebrated (India's first ever city restaurant guide) The first-of-its-kind handy insiders guide to good food established Singh as the nation's most clued-in commentariat on all things edible. She also runs the highly esteemed " Rashmi Uday Singh's Good Food Academy" and used to run "Rashmi Uday Singh's Good Food Gallerie".She has recently been on the jury for "The World's Best Woman Chef" contest in France, and is the Chairperson for the Central Asia region of the London based "World's 50 Best Restaurant Academy"

Television series

Having trained with the BBC in London, Singh hosted " Health Today," a yearlong successful T.V series on DD Metro and "Foodie Fundas with Rashmi Uday Singh," a popular food and travel show. More recently, she has filmed for Channel 4 as Gordon Ramsay’s guide to South India, her TV show “Delicious Discoveries with Rashmi Uday Singh” which took her around the world has been telecast on ET NOW and FOODIE AWARDS (a show that takes her, with a panel of judges across the length and breadth of India's diverse cullinary restaurant scene) has been telecast on TIMES NOW.

Recent Awards

Singh, who has represented India in international seminars and discussions in New York, London, Singapore and California, is a Chaine De Rotisseur. She has been awarded the "Experience Singapore" award in Singapore and the "Atout France Best Media personality award 2010" by the French Government. Her book "Around the World in 80 Plates" has won the Gourmand World Cookbook Award and the "Best of the Best" Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. The Times Food Guide 2010 is also recognized as a Gourmand World Cookbook Award-winning title. Singh has received the 2011 Gr8 Woman Acheiver's award for her extensive contribution to culinary literature in New Delhi.