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.