@yorkshireindian
Bobby Sharma is The Yorkshire Indian.
Bobby was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK.
His Mother & Father originally came from India, but moved to Kenya for a short while before eventually settling in the UK where his Father secured a role in Leeds as a Metallurgist.
Bobby tributes all of his cooking skills to his Mother, who was well renown by the community as a great cook & was called on many times to help with cooking, en masse.
“She just had that ‘golden touch’ that made anything & everything she cooked, taste amazing!” Says Bobby.
He reminisces, “I try to mimic most of Mum’s dishes from memory, as she never wrote any recipes down, who did back then? I wish I could go back in time & I promise, instead of playing out all day, I would never leave her kitchen & ask a thousand questions!”
Whilst Bobby was studying, he worked part-time in nearly any & every type of restaurant, Brasserie, Italian, Indian etc so that he could get close to the kitchen and see what was going on.
After finishing his studies, Bobby bought his first restaurant in his hometown of Headingley, Leeds, & successfully increased awareness of Traditional Indian Cuisine to the masses there.
He is an Award winning chef & restauranteur.
After leaving the restaurant business behind him, Bobby still continued to help many businesses grow as a restaurant/food consultant.
Bobby has always promoted cooking with provincial/locally produced foods, this is where the original concept for the name Yorkshire Indian came from, although he is a Yorkshire Indian by birth, his food always promoted Yorkshire produce and then cooked with an Indian style & flavour.
Bobby started The Yorkshire Indian as a channel on TikTok in January 2021.
During the pandemic, the government had just announced a further Lockdown in the UK (Lockdown 3).
Knowing that many people would be struggling with their mental health, Bobby decided to record videos of him cooking Indian food whilst doing some alternative comedy, it was an instant hit.
Not only do many people thank him for helping them through their stressful day, The Yorkshire Indian now teaches many thousands of Indian Food Lovers, around the World, how to cook their favourite Indian dishes.