| 1. Madhur was born in Delhi and relocated to Kanpur at the age of two. |
| 2. At five years old, she portrayed a mouse in the play 'Pied Piper of Hamelin.' |
| 3. In 1944, after eight years in Kanpur, she returned to Delhi with her family. |
| 4. Madhur spent her days spinning Khadi and following Mahatma Gandhi. |
| 5. She enjoyed Punjabi cuisine and shared chicken recipes on a BBC cooking program. |
| 6. In 1955, Madhur joined the Unity Theatre in Delhi, founded by actor Saeed Jaffrey. |
| 7. She learned cooking from her mother's handwritten recipes. |
| 8. Madhur is known for her numerous cooking books and television appearances. |
| 9. Her memoir about India, 'Climbing the Mango Trees,' was published in 2006. |
| 10. Sixteen of her books are cookbooks, while the other four are stories. |
| 11. She helped create the menu for Dawat, a highly-rated Indian restaurant in New York City. |
| 12. Her cookbook 'An Invitation to Indian Cooking' was inducted into the James Beard Foundation's Cookbook Hall of Fame in 2006. |
