My name is Niru Kumra and I am in my 50s, born in Punjab in India and raised in Fredrikstad. I have always had an interest in food and got it through my mother's milk with a hobby cook for my mother and grandmother who taught housekeeping in 1947
I had my breakthrough in the school kitchen in the 6th grade, where I eagerly learned to make Norwegian cakes and yeast baking that my mother was not familiar with. I didn't get a chef's education, but several years at school with economics at Østfold district college, project management at BI and innovation at NTNU a few years after I started MasalaMagic. Through 13 years in various ministries, the private business world and not least the "school of life", I have had incredible fun and at times challenging times.