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 →Supper Club
The Elsewhere Club, my London supper club: one region each evening, its dishes and their histories, served around a shared table. Ten seats, twice a month, midweek and weekend. Dates are announced here first.
Read more →Travel
Small-group culinary journeys with JrnyOn, from Oaxaca to Shanghai: neighbourhood markets, home kitchens and the people behind the dishes.
Read more →Speaking & Teaching
Food writing masterclasses, talks and workshops through organisations like the IACP, plus 1:1 mentoring for writers finding their voice or building a publication of their own.
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
A living record of how the world eats.
Everything here is one project: a platform for cultural preservation through food. Every regional dish carries centuries of geography, migration and memory, and too many are fading as the world's tastes flatten into sameness. I want to preserve, celebrate and share these food cultures while the hands that keep them alive are still cooking.
So I write about them at Crispy Compass, serve them at The Elsewhere Club, teach others to tell their stories, and take travellers to meet the cooks, markets and rituals behind them. Dining, storytelling, education and travel: four doors into the same room.
Where it all beganHave 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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