MOTHER TONGUE

WINNER OF THE JANE GRIGSON TRUST AWARD Amazing original boundary breaking Diana Henry One of the most gleeful cookbooks of 2023 Stylist Magazine His recipes have a dynamism that is genuine personal and flavour led dazzling and yet warmly inviting Nigella LawsonWith recipes for everything from Coconut Crab Crumpets to Kasundi Keema Lasagne Rolls award winning food writer Gurdeep Loyal celebrates the hybrid third culture cooking of second generation migrants around the world today Born in Britain to Indian parents Gurd felt constantly pulled by the clashing expectations of both cultures But through his passion for food and cooking he was able to embrace the delicious contradictions of his plural British Indian identity In Mother Tongue he explores his culinary upbringing that combined authentic home cooked Punjabi food with inauthentic curry house Tikka Masalas the Western foodie cannon and a wanderlust for travel in pursuit of flavour What results is a flavour amplified intercultural cuisine that is a delicious culinary self expression of his second generation experience of the world today Gurdeep serves up over 100 knock out recipes including a mouth watering Miso Masala Fried Chicken Sando Sweet Chilli Gunpowder Roasted Cauliflower Desi Kofta