Thirty three year-old Pooja Raheja is admittedly emotional about food, and doesn’t hide it. In fact, she’s far from it —she wouldn’t have co-founded a culinary design studio if she were not dead serious about “marrying food and design.”

Raheja and her husband, 34 year-old Neeraj Sharda, launched Eat Drink Design on October 24 this year to introduce the concept of design in food. The couple owned Le Chocolat at Bandra before Raheja went on to work on events in New York in 2010. “Many of us are well-exposed to different cultures and cuisines, but when it comes to food design and presentation, we are still stuck with the same, foods served in standard dishes. The type of parties have changed — there are marriage showers, for instance — but we present food in the same way. There is a disconnect between the ethos and the look of the food served.”