New Delhi, July 25 -- In 2010, San Francisco-based Sri Bodanapu, now in her 40s, left a decade-long career in tech to go to baking school in Paris. It was a daring move for someone who had grown up in India in the 1980s and 1990s in a family of high-achieving physicians, academics and entrepreneurs.

Over the next few years, Bodanapu went on to work with the non-profit Fair Trade, returned to school to study nutrition, and wrote her family's cookbook, A Heritage of Food (2020). Eventually, her love of food cultures led her to start a publishing enterprise, Heirloom Cities, in 2025. It has, so far, published two gorgeously designed large-format books. The first one, Mumbai

(2025), edited by Rushina Munshaw-Ghildiyal, recently won what is ...