Crispy Compass

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Ankita Neotia is a London-based food and travel writer, supper club host, culinary guide, speaker and advisor. Writer of Crispy Compass and winner of the Guild of Food Writers Newcomer of the Year Award 2026. | About It started in my mother's kitchen. Growing up in Calcutta, my mother recreated dishes from places we had never visited, using whatever ingredients she could find. Her kitchen became my first passport, and it sparked a lifelong curiosity about other cultures and the stories food can tell. Calcutta where it began Atlanta first taste of elsewhere New York appetite, upgraded Barcelona an MBA, mostly pintxos London home, for now Five cities, four countries, one lesson learned over and over: languages and customs differ, but people everywhere gather around a table. I moved to the United States as a teenager and began eating my way through Atlanta, then New York. An engineering degree led to

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