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Indian-Origin Chef Floyd Cardoz Dead After Testing Coronavirus Positive

Floyd Cardoz Was The Co-owner Of Two Popular Restaurants In Mumbai, Bombay Canteen And O Pedro, And Had Recently Launched His Third Venture, The Bombay Sweet Shop.

PTI | Updated on: 25 Mar 2020, 09:38:13 PM
Floyd Cardoz

Noted chef Floyd Cardoz (Photo Credit: Facebook)

Mumbai:

Noted chef Floyd Cardoz has died after testing positive for the novel coronavirus, family sources said on Wednesday.

Cardoz, 59, died of COVID-19 infection in a hospital in New York, the sources said.

He was the co-owner of two popular restaurants in Mumbai, Bombay Canteen and O Pedro, and had recently launched his third venture, the Bombay Sweet Shop.

Cardoz had been in Mumbai, where he was born, till March 8 and had informed on social media on March 18 that he had admitted himself to hospital in New York, where he lived, as he felt feverish.

He had trained as a biochemist before he discovered his real passion - in a restaurant kitchen and had moved to New York after attending culinary school in Switzerland.

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First Published : 25 Mar 2020, 09:38:13 PM

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