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      • Her husband, violinist Sanford Allen, rehearses Bach on his Stradivarius next door, for a recital upstate, where they have a country house. They married in 1969, after meeting when she was a guide at the Lincoln Center, and he the first African-American to join the New York Philharmonic.
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  2. Madhur Jaffrey is the aunt of the British journalist Rohit Jaggi [115] and his sister the literary critic Maya Jaggi, their mother being Jaffrey's elder sister, Lalit. [ 116 ] [ 117 ] Jaffrey is cousin to the late Raghu Raj Bahadur (1924–1997), considered to be one of the world's top theoretical statisticians, [ 118 ] and his sister, the late ...

  3. Nov 18, 2023 · I’m a grandmother too now – my eldest grandson just turned 31. I may yet be a great-grandmother, but they’d better get moving. I’ve been married to American violinist Sanford Allen since 1969. My secret to a long marriage? I don’t have one.

  4. She would marry the violinist Sanford Allen in 1967 (they remain happily married), but the passion for food held. It allowed her to be a “one-woman band” as she puts it. “I do everything myself.

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    Madhur Jaffrey was born on Sunday, 13 August 1933 (age 88 years; as of 2021) in Delhi. Her zodiac sign is Leo. IMDB She studied at St. Mary’s Convent School, Kanpur and Queen Mary’s Higher Secondary School, Delhi. She did her graduation from Miranda House, Delhi in 1950 and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, England in 1955. She has done a B.A. deg...

    Parents & Siblings

    Jaffrey`s father`s name is Lala Raj Bans Bahadur and her mother`s name is Kashmiran Rani. She has two brothers. Their name is Brij Bans Bahadur and Krishen Bans Bahadur. She has three sisters. Their names are Lalit, Kamal and Veena.

    Husband & Children

    Madhur Jaffrey got married to actor Saeed Jaffrey in 1958. Their marriage lasted for seven years and in 1965 they got divorced. In 1969, Madhur remarried Sanford Allen who is a Violinist. She has three daughters. Their names are Zia Jaffrey who is an Assistant Professor, Meera Jaffrey who is a Teacher and Sakina Jaffrey who is an Actress.

    Film

    Madhur was seen in the film ‘Shakespeare Wallah’ (1965), The Guru (1969), Autobiography of a Princess (1976), Heat and Dust (1983), and The Perfect Murder (1988).

    Television

    Madhur appeared on the shows ‘Madhur Jaffrey’s Far Eastern Cookery’ in 1989 and ‘Madhur Jaffrey’s Flavours of India’ in 1995. In 2019, she featured in a rap video with Zohran Mamdani (director Mira Nair’s son).

    Cooking

    Madhur wrote her first cookbook in 1973. The title of the book is ‘An Invitation to Indian Cooking’. The Hindu In 2006, the memoir written by her was published. The name of the memoir was ‘Climbing the Mango Trees’.

    In 2014, Madhur Jaffrey said in a show (Cheltenham Literature Festival) that the dish Balti was not very popular. Balti is a dish that was introduced in 1977 in Birmingham curry house. The dish gained a lot of fame during the 1980s and 1990s. The experts of the dish said that they were unhappy with what Jaffrey said about the dish and also said tha...

    She won the best actress award from the Berlin International Film Festival in 1965 for her performance in Shakespeare Wallah

    Madhur Jaffrey eats non-veg food.
    During her school days, she used to visit her brother`s college and watch plays there.
    She was a follower of Mahatma Gandhi. She witnessed the partition of India. Her school friends who were Muslim had parted. In 1948, when Mahatma Gandhi died, she attended the prayers at the Birla h...
    Jaffrey said in an interview that after the partition, there were Punjabis who had settled in India. They used to cook Tandoori Chicken, Dal Makhani, Butter Chicken, etc. She further added that she...
    In an interview, she talked about her cooking skills and said, I wasn’t taught cooking. I am self-taught through my mother’s handwritten recipes. But I must have had a good palate, although I didn’...
    In 1956, Saeed asked Madhur`s parents if Saeed and Madhur could get married. Her parents denied it and said that he was not earning enough. However, after convincing her parents, they got married.
  5. Madhur started dating Sanford Allen in 1965. Talking about her shooting days for the film, in an interview, she said, I was very young, I introduced James [Ivory] and Ismail [Merchant] to each other in England, we were all friends.

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  6. Nov 21, 2023 · Through much of this experience of tasting her way through her travels, Jaffrey had a steadfast accomplice in her second husband, classical musician Sanford Allen, who has done more than just...

  7. Dec 9, 2023 · “Then I married my present husband, Sanford Allen, who’s a musician. We became a family and we tried to do as much as we could do. I wanted to send the kids to the best schools.