Deepa Thomas was born and raised in New Delhi. She founded Deepa Textiles, a $10-million enterprise that won twenty-three design awards. In 2010, she embraced a newfound passion in cooking. Her debut, Deepa’s Secrets, is a stunningly visual cookbook of flavorful and healing recipes—interlaced with vivid stories of her Indian upbringing and its influence on her American life. Ms. Thomas will donate all her royalties of Deepa’s Secrets to FoodCorps, a nonprofit that connects children to healthy food in American schools. She lives with her husband, not far from her two sons, in the Nob Hill section of San Francisco.