Eating out is passé — cooking gourmet food at home has been trending for a while now. Ventures such as iChef.in and hautechef.in, which deliver meal kits complete with meticulously measured and packaged ingredients to your doorstep, aim to serve you with rare, carefully procured, fresh ingredients, such as feta cheese and kaffir lime leaves. They aim to make the whole concept of 'gourmet' more relatable, by breaking down dishes with intimidating names into easy recipes.


42 Spices delivers packed and measured food ingredients to you 

The latest to join the bandwagon is the two-month-old 42 Spices, started by two Mumbai-based youngsters, Abhishek Bahadur and Nihar Sawant. Besides including recipes in the meal kits, 42 Spices (the name comes from the two's shared love for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) shares videos via WhatsApp, on how to cook your food order.