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 The Celebrity Chef Devagi SanmugamWith a string of accolades that is as eclectic and imaginative as her recipes - cookbook author, food columnist, cooking instructor, entrepreneur and professional bon vivant – Chef Devagi Sanmugam, is one of Singapore's most dynamic and talented food personalities. Whether she is concocting recipes for her latest project or conducting cooking classes for budding chefs, her contagious enthusiasm transforms ordinary meals into dining adventures.
Chef Devagi Sanmugam’s career began 30 years ago in her kitchen, as a cooking instructor with a penchant for whipping up recipes. Her unique approach to cooking and her flair for creating recipes that cut across a range of cuisines quickly endeared her to a loyal following. Not looking back since, she has been at the forefront of Singapore's burgeoning culinary scene and the managing director of Devagi’s Epicurean World Pte Ltd, a culinary services providing company based in Singapore.
The Master Chef
Trains chefs, teaches novice cooks………
Over the years, she has conducted cooking and training workshops for chefs and novices in Singapore, United States, Australia, Sri Lanka, United Kingdom, Malaysia, India, and Europe, Papua New Guinea and most recently in the United Arab Emirates where she taught them the finer points of Asian cuisine and cooking. Chef Devagi continues to provide culinary educational experiences through lectures, demonstrations and team building activities at her cooking classes, hotels, restaurants, country clubs, recreational associations, schools and corporate bodies. She completed many successful guest roles as a celebrity chef at events and appeared as judge for many culinary competitions in Singapore as well as overseas.
Develops recipes and plans menus ………
An accomplished authority on the local food scene, she is constantly involved in developing and testing original recipes and formulas for food companies, hotels and restaurants in Singapore and overseas. Her approach when developing innovative menus and food offerings is to focus on creating food with integrity, food with honesty and food that is tempting forever. She believes food made from scratch and cooked to order sets the foundation of excellence in a restaurant’s food culture. Besides creating menus, developing and standardizing recipes, Chef Devagi also guides clients on detailed food product specifications, ingredient amounts, portion sizes, detailed production methods and procedures and photographs to ensure test kitchen consistency. She also guides and trains chefs and restaurant owners on setting up new commercial kitchens and general kitchen operation systems.
The Author
 Known widely today as the 'Spice Queen' of Singapore, Chef Devagi believes “cooking is in my blood and my passion is sharing it” and has proven it by being an inspiring cookbook author with 17 cookbooks under her belt - Sambals, Dips and Marinades, The South Indian Cookbook, Great Bakes No Eggs, North Indian Cooking, Indian Rice and Breads, Homestyle Indian Cooking and Naturally Speaking - Indian Recipes and Home Remedies and several others. She has also co-authored Cooking with Asian Leaves, Cooking with Asian Roots and Fun with Asian Food. Her recipes and articles have been and are still being featured in several magazines, newspapers and websites regularly. Chef Devagi customizes cookbooks according to client’s need and has been the culinary consultant for several cookbooks example: Joo Chiat Home Cooking, The LG SolarDom cookbook, Recipes for Green Living and The Flavours of Fitness. In August 2011, she will be launching her 18th and 19th cookbooks.
 The TV and Radio Personality In Singapore, Chef Devagi appeared in an English 13-episode CHEF ON CALL cooking program on Media Works Channel and Enna Suvai Enna Ragasiyam and Aasai Aasaiyai Cooking for Love, Tamil cooking programs on Vasantham Central for a total of 26 episodes. From September 2005-2006, Devagi was the Resident Chef of the Asian Food Channel, a 24-hour food channel. Devagi was also the consultant for a Malay cooking show on Suria Channel – “Soo………Lazat” which won the Pesta Perdana 2007’s Best Info-Ed Program Award! She had also been interviewed on many other info-education and cooking programs. Unceremoniously thrust into the international food show circuit, Chef Devagi Sanmugam has also appeared on TV cooking programs in the UK, Australia , US, Europe, India, Japan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Korea and interviewed on numerous radio stations all over the world.
Books written by Chef Devagi Sanmugam:
Chef Devagi Sanmugam was the culinary consultant for the following cookbooks:
Companies and organizations that Chef Devagi had worked with:
Action for AIDS
Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority of Singapore
Airways Hotel (Papua New Guinea)
Ajinomoto Pte Ltd
Amoy Canning Corporation Ltd
Ananda Bhavan Pte Ltd
Anglisss Singapore Ltd
Asia Dairies
Asian Civilization Museum
Asian Women’s Welfare Association
Asian Women’s Welfare Association
Australian Meat Board
Australian Oranges Board
Ayam Brand
Barry Callebaut
Big Plans Communications Pte Ltd
Bovril
Brand Connexxion
Brandt Asia Pte Ltd
Braun
Britannia Brands
BSH Home Appliances Pte Ltd
Californian Grapes Board
Californian Prune & Raisins Board
Central Provident Fund
Cereal-tech Pte Ltd
Chakra Foods Pte Ltd
Chaudhary Group (Nepal)
Chinatown Food Corporation Pte Ltd
Cobb Premier Grill and BBQ System
Coffee Club
Cut and Dry Pty Ltd (Australia)
D6 Studio Gallery
Denis Freres Group of Companies
Devagi’s Restaurant & Café
Devagi’s Restaurant and Café
Dolmio Sauces
Down Syndrome Association
F.Dick Knives
Farmhouse Dairy Products
Fleishman-Hillard Singapore
FNN Foods Pte Ltd
Fonterra Brands (Singapore) Pte Ltd
Food Empire Holdings
Gardenia Food (Malaysia)
Gardenia Food (Singapore) Pte Ltd
Gold Killi Trading (S) Pte Ltd
Golden Circle Oil
Gourmet Service i Årsta AB (Sweden)
Government of India Tourism Board
Health Promotion Board
Heinz Sinsin
Henckels & Zwillings
Hindu Endowment Board
Hong Kong Tourism Board (Hong Kong)
Hy-Ray Pte Ltd
Kaidy Pte Ltd
Kaiiten Communications Pte Ltd
Kelloggs
Kikkoman Pte Ltd
KNP Trading
Kovai Annarpoorna (India)
Kraft Foods Limited (Australia)
Kudanil Marine Services
Le Creseut
LG Singapore
Little India Heritage Association
Little India Merchants’ Association
Litton
Malaysian Dairies
Man Fatt Lam Home for the Aged
Marmite
Mayer Marketing Pte Ltd
Mayuri Spa
McCormick Stangee
McCormick’s Singapore
Ministry of Community Development
Mittulaul Lalal & Sons (India)
Mouj Mastiani
Mykennas Pte Ltd
Nabisco
National Environment Council
National Heritage Board
National Kidney Foundation
National Library Board
National Panasonic
Natrad Pte Ltd
Naturel
Nestle Pte Ltd
New Zealand Kiwi Fruit Board
New Zealand Milk Board
Nissin Foods (Asia) Pte Ltd
Normanbhoy & Sons
NTUC Fairprice Pte Ltd
NTUC Media Services Pte Ltd
Orient Bites
Parkway Healthcare Foundation
Peoples’ Association
Philips Ice Cream Maker
Planet Fitness Pte Ltd
Prima Food Pte Ltd
Puddings on the Ritz (Australia)
Q.B.B. Pte Ltd
Razor Sharp
Republic Polytechnic
Saladmaster
Samsung
San Remo
Sayeed Mohd & Sons
Sentosa Development Corporation
Sharp
SIA Sports Club
Silver Bird Group Berhad (Malaysia)
Sime Darby Edible Products Ltd
Sin Hwa Dee Foodstuffs Industries
Singapore Anti-Narcotics Association
Singapore Association for the Deaf
Singapore Association of the Visually Handicapped
Singapore Cheshire Homes
Singapore Discovery Centre
Singapore Heart Foundation
Singapore Kadayanallur Muslim League
Singapore Labor Foundation
Singapore Red Cross Society
Singapore Science Centre
Singapore Scout Association
Singapore Tourism Board
SinSin Pte Ltd
Society for the Physically Handicapped
Society of Saint Vincent de Paul
Solardom Oven
Sony
Spastic Children’s Association of Singapore
Spice Quay
Spice Queen Pte Ltd
Spice Queen Restaurant
Sree Narayana Mission
Sri Ramakrishnan Mission
STAUB
Sun-rice Academy
Suriya Trading
Tee Yih Jia Food Manufacturing Pte Ltd
Temasek Culinary Institute
Unilever Pte Ltd
Universal Building Materials Pte Ltd
US Potato Board
US Poultry Board
Whirlpool
Win Sin (S) Pte Ltd
Wushof Knives
Yayasan Mendaki
Yeo Hiap Seng Pte Ltd
YHS (S) Pte Ltd
Devagi’s Epicurean World Pte Ltd
T: (65) 6458 0572
E: info@epicureanworld.com.sg
W: www.epicureanworld.com.sg
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