Diana Henry’s best afternoon tea recipes for Mother’s Day 2022
telegraph.co.ukDarjeeling Express, has dedicated her new book, Ammu, to her mother. She told me recently that mothers and grandmothers should be recognised and honoured for handing on recipes and knowledge; instead, male chefs imbibe this from the women in their families but rarely credit them.
That’s why she has an all-female kitchen, staffed not by chefs but by women who cook Indian ‘home’ food. Khan started cooking only when she left India for Cambridge, a place where she felt isolated and homesick.
She learnt how to cook via letters from home and a notebook she’d kept while growing up. Asma’s love of food developed during a bleak period, helped notes she received from her mother.There is pain in Nigel Slater’s love of food too.
His mum wasn’t a good cook, but she made him buttered toast, an edible hug, something that was in short supply when Nigel’s mum died when he was just nine years old.
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