Priya Mani is a food-historian, award-winning writer, and designer leading research-driven projects on ingredients, flavor, and material culture. She founded Appetite Studio, based in Copenhagen, and is the author of, and contributor to, several food books   articles for the BBC,   and journals, including Bloomsbury Handbook of Indian Cuisine (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023). In 2022 she won the prestigious Guild of Food Writers Award (2022) and the International Association for Culinary Professionals (IACP) award. She   is a trustee  of the Oxford Food Symposium, and   a director at the  British Guild of Food Writer s ,   leading the committee on Diversity.