Food personality Sapna Anand's adventurous father inspired her love for seafood and family meal times

Sapna learnt invaluable lessons about food as well as the importance of family coming together for meals every day from her dad, who greatly values family meal times. — Photos: SAPNA ANAND

Acclaimed cookbook author and television personality Sapna Anand owes a lot of her appreciation for good food to her 76-year-old father Narayanan Kutty, an adventurous family man.

Narayanan grew up in bucolic surroundings in Kerala, India with his parents and nine siblings. The family’s ancestral home was dominated by acres and acres of paddy fields and rice was harvested for the entire family, with the excess going to people in the neighbourhood.