Suvir Saran

SUVIR SARAN made history with Devi, the first Indian restaurant in North America to earn a Michelin star. One of the world’s first openly gay chefs—out since age twenty—he has shaped iconic restaurants such as One8 Commune, Neuma, Bastian, Qora, Murphies and The House of Celeste. A lifelong student of Indian classical music, Saran also paints, stitches, knits, prints, embroiders and gardens. His memoir, Tell My Mother I Like Boys, spans pinnacles of success and depths of illness, exile and homecoming, offering readers an unflinching gift: the courage to break, heal and begin again.