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A Vegetarian herself, Chef Urvi was born in the State of Gujarat India and raised in the United States.  Her interest for Indian cooking started at an early age which she has developed into a passion for this cuisine.  She has been guided by generations of recipes which she has honed by adding her own personal touch. 

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Urvi is a wife, a mother of four grown children, and will have a new role in life as a grandmother for the first time in February, 2015!  Urvi has resided in Vero Beach for the past several years, and she loves to entertain, from intimate parties to larger events where her food is showcased.  In addition to her passion for cooking she enjoys traveling the world and reading.

Meet Urvi

Exciting News ...

PHOTOGRAPHY BY DENISE RITCHIE

Urvi was featured in Vero Beach Magazine, August 2014 Issue.

Here is a glimpse of the article as seen in Vero Beach Magazine...

 

Cooking From the Heart

Exotic spices enhance the mystery behind Indian cuisine.

 

BY BARBARA REID PHOTOGRAPHY BY DENISE RITCHIE

 

One of the things I have missed the most since moving here from England is fast access to a good Indian meal. Colonization and the resulting Indian diaspora led to an abundance of fine Indian stores and restaurants popping up in almost every town and village throughout the British Isles. A good masala or tasty samosa was never very hard to find.

So recently, knowing my penchant for Indian curry, a friend introduced me to Urvi Upadhyay, a Vero Beach resident whose

passion for cooking can only be described as

infectious. With an effusive enthusiasm and innate

ability to share her culinary skills, an afternoon

spent in Urvi’s kitchen is this foodie’s idea of nirvana.

 

Read the entire article in the August 2014 issue

 

This article appears in the August 2014 issue of

Vero Beach Magazine

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