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  • Evanston’s Best Restaurants 2025

    Chef and owner Kalpana Waikar runs a small shop in Evanston with a curated selection of sandwiches full of South Asian flavors...These unique bites are unlike anything customers can find in Chicago.
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  • Forbes

    Kalpana Waikar, Founder and CEO of Inspired Indian Cooking, offers some expert advice: set boundaries.
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  • Eater Chicago

    Owner Kalpana Waikar, founder of local spice brand Inspired Indian Cooking, will offer a menu of sandwiches such as its signature Bombay Sandwich ...
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  • Inspired Indian Co. is open for business. Waikar eased into it with three killer sandwiches, all top-notch ...
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  • Make restaurant-quality Indian food at home with these spice packs with local ties ...
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  • Inspired Indian from Chicago has created a range of small-batch spice kits containing powders and spice ingredients that make it simpler to cook delicious authentic restaurant-quality Indian food.
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  • Meet the founders behind the hottest brands hitting the market and hear their plans to stand out on shelves...
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  • The Daily Northwestern

    Inspired Indian to dish up spice kits and vegetarian sandwiches to Noyes ...
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  • Kalpana Waikar ’06 MBA creates purpose through culture and food and talks about how her “why” has evolved throughout her different stages of her life.
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  • The Daily Northwestern

    Kalpana Waikar, founder and CEO of Inspired Indian Cooking, couldn’t imagine reaching the sustainability goals of her restaurant anywhere besides Evanston.
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  • The Daily Northwestern

    Inspired Indian Cooking connects culture and community through cooking.
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  • If you’ve ever found yourself buying loads of spices for a single Indian meal, you’ll find that Inspired Indian Cooking is an economical, super-easy alternative.
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  • Eating my way through Evanston: My favorite dishes of 2024
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