Kiran Dhillon had the privilege of growing up amidst honest food. She learnt early on that the finest cooking depends on the freshest ingredients – a lesson she got right in her backyard.

Kiran’s culinary journey began at her father’s farm in a village in Faridkot district. Her father, an agriculturist, taught Kiran invaluable lessons on cultivation, apiculture, poultry, dairy and fisheries and sustainable cuisine. Kiran’s food philosophy centres around good ingredients and she considers Farmers as real heroes.

Armed with a degree in fashion from NIIT Mohali, Kiran spent a decade in fashion and luxury industry acing aesthetics and designing. The food lover in her found a coherence between fashion and food too. During her research trips to Europe and Asia, while studying the heritage of a place she also became curious about how the food was intertwined with the culture. So, while designing collections for brands like Zara, Mango, Hugo Boss, Calvin Klein, she was also journaling the food maps across the continents.
Keen to re-orient her skills, Kiran then did an MBA in luxury brand management from Paris and China. She came to Mumbai to join an agency that conducted fashion shows, fashion tours and IPL events. After this, Kiran shifted to Delhi where she used her corporate and management lessons to help a friend successfully launch a fitness Mobile app which was bought by a conglomerate. Kiran combined her entrepreneurial edge with her love for F&B and along with her chef friend Gurpreet Gehdu brainstormed ways to transform locally harvested ingredients into culinary experiences. They experimented with local and global trends and combined the purity of their ancestral food. “Rang Punjab,” in Amritsar is the brainchild of Kiran and Gurpreet that serves some of the most authentic food is Kiran’s ode to Punjab.