Chitra Agrawal

Teaches at Brooklyn Brainery

Chitra writes the food blog, The ABCD's of Cooking (ABCD = "American Born Confused Desi"), where she shares traditional Indian home cooking recipes using local ingredients. When she's not teaching cooking classes or recipe blogging, Chitra can be found making cooking videos for eHow.com and serving Indian street foods (sometimes yummy Indian tacos!) at events and artisanal markets in Brooklyn. Her cooking has appeared in the New York Times Dining Journal and she is a contributor to The Huffington Post, Serious Eats, The Daily Meal and Brooklyn Based.