Alpana Habib

Alpana Habib was born on 26 September 1966 in Birmingham, United Kingdom.^[1][2] She was brought up in Dhaka, Bangladesh. She studied in Holy Cross Girls' High School and Holy Cross College. She was a student in Dhaka University's Psychology Department.^[2]

Though she is a chef, she has worked in Thai Airways International and Singapore Airlines.^[2] She started cooking when she was in Class Six. She has run a cook school. Her cooking programs were broadcast by Desh TV, NTV, ATN Bangla and Deepto TV too.^[3] She opened her YouTube channel in 2012. Her cooking videos are viewed more than 200 million times.^[2] She also worked as a judge of "Teer Little Chef" in Duronto TV.^[4]

She was awarded ‘Inspiring Women in Culinary Arts’ by Women in Leadership and Brand Forum.^[2] On 13 May 2018 her bilingual book Alpana's Cooking (Bangla:আলপনার রান্না) was unveiled.^[5][6][7] The book was edited and translated by Ashfaque Swapon.^[6][8] For this book she was awarded Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2019.^{[2][3][9][10]}

She married Syed Ahsan Habib who is an electrical engineer.^[2] They have two children. Their names are Aritri and Adrit.