- Cooking Classes
Have you ever wanted to cook your favourite Indian restaurant dishes?
Do you want to learn about authentic, traditional, regional Indian cuisines?
Do you want to explore modern culinary trends?
Let renowned cookbook author and chef Smita Chandra be your guide to the joys of Indian cuisine.
Smita will organise:
- Hands-on or demonstration-style cooking classes - in your home for groups of 8-10 people.
- Cooking classes for corporate events – hands on or interactive cooking classes at your location.
- Spice tours –join Smita and Sanjeev Chandra for an exciting tour of Toronto’s little India on Gerard Street. Sample Indian sweets, street food, snacks, sugar cane juice, see Indian grocery stores, shop for hard to find ingredients, sample Madras coffee in a café and spend a wonderful afternoon in a world that is far removed from our hectic everyday lives. For groups of 8-10 or more people.
- Spice tours with cooking class– Learn how to prepare an authentic Indian meal, immerse yourself in the history behind the cuisine and then take a tour of little India with Smita and Sanjeev Chandra. For groups of 8-10 or more people.
- Recipe development
South Asians are one of the fastest growing minorities in Canada. Find out how to target this audience and sell your products with customized recipes that are exciting, challenging and will draw attention and improve sales of your products to this group.
Some of Smita's current corporate clients
- Unilever Canada
- Ontario Potato Board
(Click on recipes to view hakka chilli potatoes, potato gulab jamuns and tandoori potato skewers.)
- Recipe Testing
Need recipes tested for your publication or for your company? Smita specialises in South Asian and all other recipe testing. Smita will provide you with fast, accurate and precise results and will honour your deadlines at short notice!
Some of smita’s current clients
- Freelance writing (See some of Smita's articles here)
Need an article written up about your product for publicity and media purposes, need a Hindi or English translation of your copy, need food related articles or copy? Smita will do all that for you! With her considerable food writing experience, Smita can deliver what you need, in the time frame you need. Please contact her for more details.
- Catering and event planning
Want to throw a fantastic party but don’t want to spend the whole day in the kitchen cooking for it? Get Smita to cater it for you! Not only will Smita cater the food, she will also plan your entire event, taking care of every little detail such as food, beverages, flowers, seating, wait staff etc, leaving you free to socialise and enjoy yourself.
Join Smita for some of these cooking classes
Contact Smita at info@smitachandra.com for more information.






