Madur Jaffrey - 15719

Indian-born British-American actress, food and travel writer, and television personality.

Jaffrey is recognized for bringing Indian cuisine to the western hemisphere with her debut cookbook, An Invitation to Indian Cooking (1973), She has written over a dozen cookbooks and appeared on several related television programmes, the most notable of which was Madhur Jaffrey's Indian Cookery, which premiered in the UK in 1982.

She is, however, equally famous as an actress. She was instrumental in bringing together filmmakers James Ivory and Ismail Merchant and acted in several of their films such as Shakespeare Wallah (1965) The Guru (1969), Autobiography of a Princess (1976), Heat and Dust (1983), directed by Ivory, and The Perfect Murder (1988). She starred as the title character in their film Cotton Mary (1999) and co-directed it with Merchant.

This is a very pretty early black and white photograph (7" x 5") of the young actress, neatly signed ("WIth best wishes, Madhur Jaffrey") in dark blue fountain pen ink. In excellent condition.