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Venkat kanithi (born 16 April 1984) popularly known as Mee Inti Vanta is an Indian and Continental chef. He is especially popular among the South and North Indian community. He became well known for Mee Inti Vanta on Zee Telugu channel from 2010 onwards covering over 1800 plus episodes. He became popular for his authentic and simple cooking recipes and techniques. He instantly became popular with the beginners, culinary students and homemakers.

Early life
Venkat kanithi was born in Visakhapatnam, India. His father was self employed in the agriculture and irrigation sector, residing in Simhachalam popular for its deities. Being a keen observant from his childhood days, he would pay special attention towards the food served to the deities coming to seek blessings from the Simhachalam temple. Always very inquisitive to know the type of food served to them, by touring the temple kitchen and taking interest in mass cooking. He was very deeply fascinated by his mother’s style of cooking and eventually developed the art of cooking from her. He learnt the basic method of cooking from his home kitchen with limited resources and fewer ingredients. He developed a very deep fascination of cooking with his mother and thereby getting to know the different food items by asking questions and providing his assistance in preparation. So was his passion from the early age that he invented his first dish Bhindi Peanut Fry, which was surprisingly relished by all the family members and making the dish hit overnight. He later did his hotel management, from Kalinga University, Chhattisgarh.

Career
He began his career in 2000 working for Sarovar Group Of Hotels in Hyderabad, later with Taj Residency Bengluru, Inter Continental Mumbai, Taj Colombo, Green park Hotels & Resorts in Hyderabad. In 2006 Asian games held in Qatar, represented Damac Hospitality services for preparing pre plated meals for around 2.5lakhs representatives for the games, relocated to Bahrain in 2015 with Caravan Group Of Hotels.

wowchefguru.com
Recently launched website, represents easy and basic method of cooking with simple national and international recipes. Our vision is to provide recipes with minimum ingredients but very tasteful and elegant. We mainly focus on healthy recipes and also concentrating on diet and diabetic food. The site also boasts of worldwide culinary theories which will help the young upcoming culinary students and chefs for their future growth and career.

Television shows
Sanjay co-hosted (and judged) a culinary show in Zee Telugu, named Mee Inti Vanta (meaning home cooked food). Also hosted Tollywood Vantakam on Tollywood channel with celebrities like Krishnam Raju, Chakri, Rajiv Kanakala and also hosted cullinary shows on news channels like V6 and T News, TV9, TV5.

Facebook
His official Facebook page wowchefguru is now getting popular and already has around 500 likes. He constantly posts new recipes, techniques and food quotations.