Ranjit Mathrani chairs MW Eat, the highly influential London group whose first restaurant, Chutney Mary, opened 35 years ago this month. A former senior civil servant and merchant banker, he runs the company alongside his wife Namita Panjabi (right in photo), the first Indian woman to become a merchant banker, and her sister Camellia Panjabi […]
‘Bonjour, Chef!’ Marcus Rowlerson has turned a centuries-old greengrocer into an industry leader Just six boxes of the first crop of this year’s white asparagus from Provence arrived at Rungis market in Paris earlier this month. Two boxes found their way into Parisian kitchens – the rest were snapped up by a specialist grocer based in […]