NEW FRONTIERS: India

And Indian cuisine, above all, seems to be reaching a new level of notoriety. With India increasing in international influence, it’s about time its broad national culinary heritage started getting more of the limelight in the United States. This year we not only toasted one of the most incredible young Indian chefs in our New York Rising Stars, we saw a huge variety of Indian cuisine showcased at the Varli Food Festival. "Asian and Indian are the two fastest growing cuisines in popularity in the United States right now," says says Michael Smith, general manager of Cooking Channel. "It's no accident that in the past year or so Cooking Channel has launched 'Easy Chinese: San Francisco,' 'Luke's Vietnam,' 'Spice Goddess,' and 'Indian Food Made Easy.' Indian recipes from our 'Spice Goddess' series are regularly among the most downloaded at our website Cookingchanneltv.com." And we may be seeing new talent follow in the footsteps of Madhur Jaffrey’s back-to-her-roots cooking show “A Taste of India,” with the next big Indian show stateside rumored to be London Chef Reza Mahammad’s “Reza, Spice Prince of India.” You’ll want to tune—and tuck—in.