Bake Off winner says Asma Begum can’t hide a look of disappointment when she takes a dish to her house.The 37-year-old TV chef said her mother will complain the food “needs modifying”.Speaking on the Off Menu podcast, the cookbook writer said: “[My mum] is not maternal at all.“I very rarely take anything round for her because she is so judgemental about everyone’s cooking.“Even as somebody who cooks for a living when I take something round for her, she opens it, she won’t smell it, she will barely look at it and honestly you can see the disappointment in her face.“She says ‘it’s going to need modifying’ and then she’ll close it and she’ll put it away.“Then I’ll get a call from one of my sisters saying ‘you know that beef thing that you made, that was delicious.’ I say ‘I gave that to mum’ and she goes ‘yeah she gave that to me.’“She will [either give it away] or take the English out of it and make it Bengali.
Even if I make some bread, she’s like ‘this is too English for me’”.Nadiya said her mother also “does not care” about her career success.She said: “[My mum] doesn’t watch anything I’m on.
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