From traditional Punjabi dishes to special favourites of the UK’s curry houses, Gurdeep Loyal’s sumptuous volume is a rich and vibrant celebration of British Indian cooking.
Filled with vibrant and lively recipes, Mother Tongue celebrates and explores the multitudes of second-generation British-Indian identity through food.
Born in Britain to Indian parents, Gurdeep never felt fully on the inside of either culture. But it was through his love and passion of food and cooking that he was able to embrace and understand the dichotomies of his hyphenated identity.
Mother Tongue explores what happens when your culinary education combines 'authentic' home-cooked Punjabi food, with 'inauthentic' curry-house Tikka Masalas, the European foodie cannon, and a wanderlust for travel in pursuit of flavour, each in equal measure. The result is a hybrid cuisine that exists in the middle-ground as a delicious self-expression of British-Indian identity today - characterised by ingredient combinations that inhabit the grey areas in between so-called cultural boundaries.
This vibrantly spiced, flavour-amplified, third-culture cuisine creates with it a spectrum of possibilities for home-cooks to explore and be inspired by every day.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780008464547
Number of pages: 256
Weight: 960 g
Dimensions: 252 x 195 x 26 mm
‘One of the most gleeful cookbooks of 2023… prepare to fall deeply in love with this book.’ Stylist Magazine ‘His recipes have a dynamism that is genuine, personal and flavour-led… dazzling and yet warmly inviting… There is so much more to the book than the recipes… It allows you — to draw on an analogy that both Loyal and I favour — new music in the kitchen.’ Nigella Lawson ‘Inventiveness, originality and pleasure run through every page… the recipes are consistently inviting, and more than occasionally wow-out-loud thrilling… book of the month.’ Delicious Magazine ‘Outstanding… a kitchen journey that spans cuisines… our new favourite cookbook.’ Observer Food Monthly ‘If food can be melt in the mouth, this is melt in the mind… unbelievably beautifully written.’ Saturday Kitchen ‘A beautiful cookbook… really beautiful.’ Table Manners Podcast ‘How thrilling and inspiring to be drawn into Gurdeep’s extraordinary diaspora and fantastic world of flavours!’ Claudia Roden ‘Every so often a rare cookbook comes along which brings something completely new and fascinating to the world of food. Mother Tongue does just that. A fiercely original, boundary shifting celebration of flavour and culture, that I will go back for years to come’ Anna Jones ‘This book really excites me. It looks at Indian food with fresh eyes and break moulds with its recipes, photography and style. Gurdeep is very talented – this book is just the start!’ Chetna Makan ‘A stunningly evocative cookbook with creative modern recipes that pay homage to the rich and diverse Punjabi and South Asian culinary traditions. I wanted to devour every page’ Yasmin Khan ‘A Willy Wonka-style wizard of flavour, his joy in food shines from every page – a genuinely thrilling book’ Felicity Cloake
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