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Chitra Agrawal

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Founder at Brooklyn Delhi
📍 New York, New York, United States

Chitra Agrawal is the Founder of Brooklyn Delhi, a nationally distributed Indian food brand, and the author of the cookbook "Vibrant India. " Leveraging an MBA from NYU Stern and over a decade of digital marketing experience with brands like American Express, she successfully transitioned her passion for her familys recipes into a thriving CPG business.

Inspired by her Indian-American identity, Chitra began her culinary journey with a food blog in 2009, which evolved into teaching cooking classes and hosting pop-up dinners in Brooklyn. She is passionate about bridging cultures through food and making the complex, regional flavors of Indian cuisine more accessible to a mainstream audience.

She co-founded Brooklyn Delhi with her husband, Ben Garthus, a food packaging designer who created the brands identity.

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Experience
18 Years
Current Role
Founder
Job Level
Leadership
Location
New York, New York, United States
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Food Entrepreneurship
She left a decade-long marketing career to build Brooklyn Delhi from a passion project to a nationally recognized brand sold in major retailers like Whole Foods and Target.
Indian Culinary Traditions
Her brand and cookbook, "Vibrant India, " are dedicated to sharing her family's vegetarian recipes from Bangalore and making traditional Indian flavors, like achaar, mainstream.
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Career

Work history

10-2013
Founder
Brooklyn Delhi
10-2013 - 1-2017
Digital Marketing Consultant
Consultant/Freelance
6-2011 - 10-2013
Director of Marketing
BlogTalkRadio
9-2007 - 6-2011
Marketing Manager
American Express
Sr. Account Executive
Tribal DDB
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Education
BA
University of California, Berkeley
MBA
NYU Stern School of Business
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