Lunch Break
Try This Beginners’ Recipe for Indian Chicken With Coconut
Steelworker’s daughter Romy Gill learned to cook as child in Bengal.
The dish of chicken thighs as prepared by the author.
Photographer: Richard Vines/Bloomberg
Chef Romy Gill has had to work hard for her success.
She was born and brought up in Burnpur, West Bengal, where her father worked in a steel plant. She learned to cook with her mother and decided she wanted to be a chef after her mother was diagnosed with cancer. Romy never formally studied culinary arts, and when she moved to the U.K. in her early 20s to go to university, she didn’t have handy connections in the hospitality business.