A fork in one hand. Strategy in the other.
I'm Ankita Neotia, a London-based food and travel writer, supper club host and culinary guide. I spent over a decade in strategy consulting before trading boardrooms for market stalls, and now I tell stories that begin, more often than not, at the table.
My story Work with me
One career, served in four courses.
Everything I do sits at the intersection of story and strategy. The medium changes; the appetite does not.
Writing
Award-winning food and travel writing at Crispy Compass, alongside essays, editorial projects and ghostwriting. Immersive, sensory storytelling about food as memory, migration and identity.
Read more →Experiences
Culinary journeys with JrnyOn, from Oaxaca to Shanghai, and The Elsewhere Club, my London supper club where every dish arrives with its story. Come hungry, leave with a new way of seeing a place.
Read more →Education & Speaking
Food writing masterclasses, talks and workshops through organisations like the IACP, plus 1:1 mentoring for writers finding their voice or building a publication of their own.
Read more →Advisory
Growth and narrative strategy for founders in FMCG, travel and hospitality, built on twelve years advising C-suites at IBM and Deloitte. Plus board service at Off Assignment.
Read more →"Every dish tells a story about geography, migration, history, resilience and identity. Learn why people eat what they eat, and you begin to understand the lives that shaped it." The idea behind everything I do
Cultural preservation, one plate at a time.
Everything here is one project: a platform for cultural preservation through food. Every regional dish carries centuries of geography, migration and memory, and too many are fading as the world's tastes flatten into sameness. I want to preserve, celebrate and share these food cultures while the hands that keep them alive are still cooking.
So I write about them at Crispy Compass, serve them at The Elsewhere Club, teach others to tell their stories, and take travellers to meet the cooks, markets and rituals behind them. Dining, storytelling, education and travel: four doors into the same room.
Where it all beganHave a project, a journey or simply an appetite?
Commissions, consulting, collaborations, or a strong opinion about where to eat in London. I answer all of the above.
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