Indian-American celebrity chef Floyd Cardoz dies of corona complications - Times of India

WASHINGTON: Those who find it hard to take coronavirus seriously given its relatively low morality rate – even at 1 per cent, it is not exactly bubonic plague – will be sobered only when they lose someone they know, or even know of.
The death has occurred in New York City on Wednesday morning of Floyd Cardoz, the Indian-born celebrity chef, reportedly from complications following Covid19 infection.
Floyd fell ill soon after returning on March 8 from Mumbai, where he co-owns the restaurants the Bombay Canteen and O Pedro, and where he was also shooting Season 2 of Ugly Delicious with the comedian Aziz Ansari. He admitted himself to a New York hospital and posted the following message on Facebook on March 17: "Sincere apologies everyone. I am sorry for causing undue panic around my earlier post. I was feeling feverish and hence as a precautionary measure, admitted myself into hospital in New York. I was hugely anxious about my state of health and my post was highly irresponsible causing panic in several quarters. I returned to New York on March 8th via Frankfurt."
Floyd was 59, and of a demographic and ethnicity (South Asian) known for its predisposition to heart disease, which makes Covid-19 all the more lethal.
Floyd made his mark in the Big Apple in 1998 by opening, in partnership with American restaurateur Danny Meyer and the Union Square Hospitality group, the modernist Indian restaurant Tabla. It was the first high-end Indian restaurant in the U.S marking the rise of a cuisine that was largely known for cheap, spicy food. ''We got a lot of flak because we did not have a $ 4.99 buffet,'' he told this correspondent in a 2005 interview. ''Till Tabla came along Indian food was seen as something that gave heartburn. We dispelled a lot of pre-conceived notions and showed Indian food does not have to spicy.''
In a more recent interview with this correspondent after he won a Top Chef prize (for delightfully making, of all things, upma), Cardoz recounted how his family didn’t want him to be a chef. He was strong-armed into a bio-chemistry course in Mumbai’s St.Xavier College for some time before he wriggled out and enrolled in a catering and hotel management course in a Pedder Road institute. He went on to do an advance hotel management course in Switzerland and returned to India and worked at Oberoi for two years. He moved in 1988 to New York, where he struggled in a small Indian restaurant near Columbia University before getting a break at Henry’s, a French restaurant near Rockefeller Center.
Despite the critical acclaim it received, Tabla shut down in 2010, mainly because it was too large with 280 seats at two levels, Cardoz said. He went on to found North End Grill with Danny Meyer, but exited the partnership in 2014 when he decided, departing from the fine-dining chase, that wanted to make Indian food “as popular as Chipotle.” Meyer supported him and they continued to be friends.
On Wednesday, minutes after news of Cardoz’ death broke, Meyer tweeted: "Love you so much @floydcardoz."

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