An award-winning author, a prominent TV personality, an active philanthropist and a James Beard Award of Excellence winner, Chef Maneet Chauhan, today, sits on the permanent panel of judges on Food Network’s Emmy® Award-nominated show Chopped. The program airs as a primetime weekly TV show on Food Network USA and internationally in Canada, U.K., Dubai and India (NDTV Good Times).

Chef Chauhan has been heavily lauded by the media in print, electronically and on national television in the U.S. and abroad (Bon Appetit, Wine Enthusiast, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, New York Post, Times of India, The Telegraph, Crain’s Business, O, The Oprah Magazine, Fortune Small Business, CNN Money and many more). Her multiple TV appearances also include ABC’s The View, Lifetime Channel’s Designing Spaces, Fox TV’s multiple programs, Food Network’s Iron Chef and Next Iron Chef. All this has been as part of appreciation for Chef Chauhan’s highly unique, intriguing and innovative cuisine with global influences, and she has been the only Indian woman chef to ever compete on Iron Chef and Next Iron Chef.

As executive chef of Vermilion, she was at the helm of executing the Indian-Latin cuisine developed by Rohini Dey and her kitchen teams in New York and Chicago. With Chef Chauhan at the helm, the restaurant earned many accolades, including Chicago magazine’s Best New Restaurant, Esquire’s Restaurant of the Month and Wine Enthusiast’s Best New Restaurant in the U.S. Vermilion then set its sights on New York City and launched an equally impressive outpost in the heart of Manhattan. Soon after opening its doors, Chef Chauhan was nominated as the “Best Import to New York” by Time Out New York magazine.

Maneet Chauhan was invited to the White House in 2014 by former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama as part of the Easter Egg Roll Hunt 2014. She is an invited member of Indiaspora — an organization with the top 100 influential Indian American’s in the U.S. — and sits on the board of the Society of Fellows of Culinary Institute of America.

She is currently in the process of opening her own restaurant, Chauhan Ale and Masala House, in Nashville, TN. Maneet is also the owner and founder of Indie Culinaire — a New York-based avant-garde hospitality company that offers out-of-the-box restaurant and hotel consulting solutions, has a line of signature spices, does exquisite and elite catering events and is engaged in multiple philanthropic events that stand for children’s education, an end hunger, women empowerment etc.