R. K. Saxena

R. K. Saxena has two decades of rich experience in the hotel and catering industry.After graduating from Bombay University he got his Post Graduate Diploma in Specialised Hotel Management from Bombay Catering Institute.Thereafter , he spent ten years in the hotels of Lucknow, Bombay, Goa and Washington D.C. mostly operating and managing the catering outlets and hotels spending a lot of time in the kitchens.After heading the catering department of the Bangalore Hotel School for six years , he presently heads the Hotel Management Institute at Mumbai.Having been associated with Awadh cuisine for long the author was motivated to write a book on the subject because he felt that one of the finest cuisines in the world was heading towards an end due to under-research, under-documentation, lack of knowledge and publicity.