Chef and owner of Darjeeling Express Asma Khan will be discussing her divine new book Ammu, a tribute to the simple home-cooking from her kitchen in Calcutta. Part cookbook and part memoir, Ammu (a term used in South Asian Muslim homes for mother) is a delicious collection of childhood recipes that celebrate the power of home and cooking. These are the foods she cooks for her family every day, meals to comfort, restore and nourish.
The discussion will explore what it takes to run a successful restaurant, where the cooks are not traditional chefs but learnt the recipes from their grandmothers, Asma’s ancestral heritage and her life now in London.