Andaza - Sumayya Usmani

Andaza

A Memoir of Food, Flavour and Freedom in the Pakistani Kitchen

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Buch | Hardcover
312 Seiten
2023
Murdoch Books (Verlag)
978-1-922616-19-7 (ISBN)
31,15 inkl. MwSt
Food writer Sumayya Usmani conjures her story of growing up in Pakistan, migrating to the UK, and navigating a path to self-trust through her family's food.
'[Sumayya Usmani is] the go-to expert in Pakistani cuisine' - BBC Good Food Magazine


'Sumayya Usmani is a brilliant storyteller. She transports us with her delicious descriptions of the smells and flavours of the kitchen.'
- Jay Rayner, award-winning writer and food critic


Award-winning food writer Sumayya Usmani's stunning memoir conjures a story of what it was like growing up in Pakistan and how the women in her life inspired her to trust her instincts in the kitchen.


From a young age, food was Sumayya's portal to nurturing, love and self-expression. She spent the first eight years of her life at sea, with a father who captained merchant ships and a mother who preferred to cook for the family herself on a tiny electric stove in their cabin rather than eat in the officer's mess.


When the family moved to Karachi, Sumayya grew up torn between the social expectations of life as a young girl in Pakistan, and the inspiration she felt in the kitchen, watching her mother, and her Nani Mummy (maternal grandmother) and Dadi's (paternal grandmother) confidence, intuition and effortless ability to build complex, layered flavours in their cooking.



This evocative and moving food memoir - which includes the most meaningful recipes of Sumayya's childhood - tells the story of how Sumayya's self-belief grew throughout her young life, allowing her to trust her instincts and find her own path between the expectations of following in her father's footsteps as a lawyer and the pressures of a Pakistani woman's presumed place in the household. Gradually, through the warmth of her family life, the meaning of 'andaza' comes to her: that the flavour and meaning of a recipe is not a list of measured ingredients, but a feeling in your hands, as you let the elements of a meal come together through instinct and experience.


Recipes include:
Nani Mummy's prawn karahi
Potatoes with curry leaves and turmeric
Chicken boti tikka, Bundoo Khan style
Mummy's wedding-style chicken korma
Bitter lemon, mustard seed and garlic pullao
Dadi's banana and fennel seed gulgulay doughnut



'I can't decide whether I want to devour Sumayya's story or her recipes first, but this has left me hungry to travel, to explore... and, of course, to eat.'
Felicity Cloake, Guardian food columnist and author of Perfect, The A-Z of Eating and One More Croissant for the Road

Well-connected and beloved in the food world, Sumayya Usmani went from practising law for twelve years to pursuing food writing and teaching. Her first book, Summers Under the Tamarind Tree: Recipes and Memories from Pakistan (Frances Lincoln, 2016) was the first Pakistani cookbook in Britain. Her mentor and friend Madhur Jaffrey, who wrote the main blurb, calls the book 'a treasure'. It won the Best First Cookbook category in the Gourmand Cookbook Awards in 2016. It was also shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award. Her second cookbook, Mountain Berries and Desert Spice: Sweet Inspirations from the Hunza Valley to the Arabian Sea (Frances Lincoln, 2017) was shortlisted in the Best Cookbook of the Year category at the Food & Travel Magazine Awards. Sumayya won The Scottish Book Trust's Next Chapter Award in 2021 for Andaza as a work in progress. Sumayya is an experienced cookery teacher having taught in many UK-based cookery schools, including Divertimenti and the School of Artisan Food and her style of teaching is based on inspiring people to trust their senses and intuition with flavours. She has been featured as a resident food writer for four weeks in the Guardian COOK supplement (now known as Feast), and has also featured in the Telegraph, New York Times, Independent, Saveur, Delicious, Olive, BBC Good Food and Food 52. She was called 'the go-to expert in Pakistani cuisine' by BBC Good Food Magazine. Sumayya is a BBC broadcaster and has been a presenter on BBC Radio Scotland's Kitchen Cafe as well as being a regular panellist on Jay Rayner's The Kitchen Cabinet on BBC Radio 4. She has appeared on BBC Radio 4's Women's Hour. On television, she has appeared on Madhur Jaffrey's Curry Nation on Good Food Channel, and various times on STV and London Live. Sumayya mentors other writers online as well as hosting her podcast, A Savoured Life.

About Andaza
YOU CAN'T COOK WITH WORDS
THE HOPE AT HOSPITALITY'S HEART
FAITH IN THE FLAVOUR OF YOUR HANDS
FEED YOUR GUESTS, AND FEED THEM WELL
COOKING ON MEATLESS DAYS
GREEN CHILLIES ON THE SIDE
CHAAT ISN'T A STARTER
PICKLED LEMONS AND PERFECT PHULKAS
BENAZIR AND BUNDOO KHAN
COOKING MUMMY'S PULLAO
DADI'S FREE SPIRIT
THE SECRET TO LAYERING SPICES IS SERENITY
WEDDING KORMA IS NEVER MADE WITH CREAM
MITHAI ISN'T DESSERT
BITTER, DARK LEMONS
COOKING FOR CONSOLATION
ANDAZA IN MY KITCHEN
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 170 x 240 mm
Gewicht 1108 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Essen / Trinken Länderküchen
ISBN-10 1-922616-19-2 / 1922616192
ISBN-13 978-1-922616-19-7 / 9781922616197
Zustand Neuware
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