A fork in one hand. Strategy in the other.
I'm Ankita Neotia, a London-based food and travel writer, supper club host and culinary guide. I spent over a decade in strategy consulting before trading boardrooms for market stalls, and now I tell stories that begin, more often than not, at the table.
My story Work with me
One career, served in four courses.
Everything I do sits at the intersection of story and strategy. The medium changes; the appetite does not.
Writing
Award-winning food and travel writing at Crispy Compass, alongside essays, editorial projects and ghostwriting. Immersive, sensory storytelling about food as memory, migration and identity.
Read more → No. 2Experiences
Culinary journeys with JrnyOn, from Oaxaca to Shanghai, and The Elsewhere Club, my London supper club where every dish arrives with its story. Come hungry, leave with a new way of seeing a place.
Read more → No. 3Education & Speaking
Food writing workshops through the IACP, talks on food, culture and craft, and 1:1 mentoring for writers finding their voice or building a publication of their own.
Read more → No. 4Advisory
Growth and narrative strategy for founders in FMCG, travel and hospitality, built on twelve years advising C-suites at IBM and Deloitte. Plus board service at Off Assignment.
Read more →"Every dish tells a story about geography, migration, history, resilience and identity. Learn why people eat what they eat, and you begin to understand the lives that shaped it." The idea behind everything I do
From Calcutta, via four countries, to your inbox.
I learned about the world through my mother's kitchen long before I learned it through books or maps. She recreated dishes from places we had never visited, and her cooking became my first passport.
Since then I have lived across India, the United States, France, Spain and the United Kingdom, collected an engineering degree, an MBA and twelve years in strategy consulting, then traded the corporate ladder for a seat at every table I could find.
The full storyHave a project, a journey or simply an appetite?
Commissions, consulting, collaborations, or a strong opinion about where to eat in London. I answer all of the above.
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