Food has always been integral to Seema’s life and her early inspiration was her hard working single mum who would make a fresh Indian meal from scratch every day. This informed Seema’s style of cooking by making the most of the ingredients that you have to hand but still creating delicious food from simple ingredients. So many of her mum’s dishes are Seema’s go-to when she wants something comforting.
When Seema was 13, she took a year off school when diagnosed with cancer. During this time, she loved watching the cooking channels and it made her curious to find out more about the food and flavours of different cultures, a passion which still drives her today. Seema’s mum fuelled this new found love of cooking by buying her second-hand cooking equipment from car boot sales or eBay. By the time she went back to school she was baking all her friend’s birthday cakes and selling them on Facebook. She also sold 2000 cupcakes door to door (every weekend for a year) to raise money so she could go travelling.
After securing her degree in neuroscience from Manchester University she realised she wanted to follow her true passion which was food and learning dishes from around the world. Seema began her career as a chef for the likes of Gordon Ramsay’s Lucky Cat and York and Albany After nearly two years of exhausting work as a professional chef, commuting on her moped from Slough to London one rainy morning she was hit by a car and sent to hospital. It was during her recuperation that she turned another difficult situation into something positive and had the time to apply for MOB. She went on to be a food creator for Mob Kitchen with her own incredibly successful food platforms centred on flavour. Seema focused on the national dish series which taught her about people, food and culture from all over the world then using that to make recipes that people can use day to day. She now has over 1.3 million followers and 24.3 million likes on TikTok and over 444k followers on Instagram.