Asma's Indian Kitchen: The bestselling Indian cookbook from Darjeeling Express’ award winning chef

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Mukherjee, Kamalika (28 August 2020). "How Chef Asma Khan Created an All-Women Kitchen". Condé Nast Traveler . Retrieved 21 January 2021. Khan’s loud and sensational arrival as “just a middle-aged housewife” seems to have come with a mission statement that demands respect for the food, culture and female cooks of south Asia. One that hasn’t always translated from high street curry houses, where dishes have often been bastardised for western palates. While the successes of Gymkhana, Benares, Dishoom and the like have revived an appreciation for how delicate and layered Indian dishes can be, south Asian restaurants often still have kitchens exclusively staffed by men in an industry dominated by them. One of the brightest stars of London's restaurant scene, Asma Khan stands tall as an inspirational figure in food, astounding diners with sumptuous Indian cookery from her own Darjeeling Express and relentlessly pushing the boundaries as an advocate for social change. But things were not always so easy – Asma’s journey to the top has had its fair share of twists and turns. a b c d e f g h i Iqbal, Nosheen (20 September 2020). "Asma Khan: 'Restaurants should be ranked on how they treat their people' ". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 20 September 2020 . Retrieved 21 January 2021.

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What I thought: I made this for my family at the weekend and it went down an absolute treat. There weren’t many ingredients in this and it was really easy to make, so I was blown away by how flavoursome it was. We served it with the rice that Asma suggested and it was so delicious. I will definitely be making this again! This book is a joyful celebration of the universal power of food to restore, and to comfort. It is a tribute to Ammu, Asma's mother, to the simple home cooking from her kitchen in Calcutta, and an exploration of the inextricable link between food and love. In 1996 her husband moved to SOAS University of London to teach, [11] and Khan started studying law at King's College London. She graduated with a PhD in British Constitutional Law in 2012. [3] Career [ edit ] In 2018 her cookbook, Asma's Indian Kitchen, [3] was published by Pavilion Books. [21] The San Francisco Chronicle called it a "stellar debut". [22] It was shortlisted for the 2018 World Gourmand award for Best Indian Cookbook. [10] [23]

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Khan was approached by Brian McGinn, producer of Chef's Table, to be the first British chef profiled on the series. [11] [7] Filming started in London and India in July 2018 with Zia Mandviwalla directing. [11] [14] Khan recalls Mandviwalla, who was born in Mumbai and lives in New Zealand, "did not ask me pointless questions about my husband and marriage, I did not need to explain what my mother meant to me, she got it." [11] The programme first aired in February 2019. Khan is the first British chef to be featured. [3] [4] [11] [13] The series' sixth season's theme is "the journey home". [13] The season, which included Khan's episode, was nominated for an Emmy in the outstanding documentary section. [24] According to Bloomberg it became difficult to get a reservation at Darjeeling Express after the series aired. [25] Mah, Ann (26 October 2018). "In London, a Restaurant Specializes in Indian Home Cooking". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 12 May 2019 . Retrieved 19 July 2019. My deep concern during the pandemic is seeing very prominent people with considerable wealth remove the entire workforce without a safety net.” A surge of restaurant and pub workers were reported to be sleeping rough in central London in April, a fact Khan can’t shake. “It is so shameful, my heart bleeds for the industry, it is immoral. I don’t want restaurants to be ranked by Michelin stars for the fluff and edible herbs they put on a plate. I want to know how they treat their people, they should be ranked on that. Where there is bullying and racism, where there is sexual harassment, where staff don’t feel safe, people should boycott those restaurants. I don’t want to see them prosper.” a b c d e f g Theis, Brooke (21 February 2019). "Asma Khan is the first British chef to feature on Netflix's 'Chef's Table' ". Town & Country . Retrieved 18 July 2019. a b c d Hosie, Alison Millington, Tom Murray, Rachel. "The 100 coolest people in food and drink". Business Insider. Archived from the original on 27 June 2019 . Retrieved 18 July 2019. {{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( link)

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Uppal, Megha (4 December 2019). "Asma Khan: The Indian chef who's got the world eating out of her hand". Lifestyle Asia India. Archived from the original on 6 February 2021 . Retrieved 6 May 2020. A bold move, but then Khan is hardly known for being a wallflower. She’s ever present in the restaurant, an enthusiastic force who explains her dishes to the customers, unafraid of putting them off, because she is determined that they appreciate the history and the context in which their meals would traditionally be made. Who’s the author? Asma Khan is an award-winning chef and food writer. Asma started a supper club from her home in 2012, and since then she has been revolutionising the UK food scene launching a pop-up restaurant in Soho in 2015 and the acclaimed eatery, Darjeeling Express, in 2017. She is famous for her home-style Indian food and her all-female team. Our favorite cookbooks of 2019, so far - SFChronicle.com". www.sfchronicle.com. 21 June 2019. Archived from the original on 22 June 2019 . Retrieved 18 July 2019. On Sundays, when Darjeeling Express is closed, Khan offers free use of the premises to women who are aspiring chefs and restaurateurs who would like to host supper clubs. [11] [30] When Khan gave up the Soho space, she arranged with her landlord to allow Imad Alarnab, a Syrian refugee who had been running a pop-up restaurant, to use the space for the remainder of the lease. [7]Asma Khan (in red) and her team at the Darjeeling Express restaurant in 2017. Photograph: Alex Lake/The Observer Coming from a family of originally Iranian origins, Ausma Zehanat Khan was raised in the United Kingdom after her parents moved there from Canada. This much information is usually enough to inform the reader of the possible routes her work might have taken, and he might be correct in guessing that she has chosen the noblest and most humanitarian pursuit in the way she has chosen to portray and develop her stories. Having received a doctorate degree in International Human Rights Law, after which she served as adjunct professor in universities both in the United States of America and in Canada, she seems even better equipped to talk about the subject of liberty in a world torn by prejudice and discrimination. That her life has been filled with experiences that corroborate and enrich her perspectives and feed a rich well of knowledge on it is something the reader might also reasonably guess. Asma Khan’s biryani has the power to make you cry. Not in the hyperbolic, internet vernacular sense, where food is considered “amazing”, “divine” or “to die for”. But I took a friend to the farewell supper club at Khan’s restaurant Darjeeling Express, before it moved to a new location, and somewhere between the ceremonial opening of the daig (the cauldron in which the biryani is made) and eating those first few spoonfuls of rice, my friend – a part-time DJ and a full-time cynic – literally began to cry. GOURMAND AWARDS". www.cookbookfair.com. Archived from the original on 14 July 2019 . Retrieved 18 July 2019.

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Brehault, Laura (3 October 2019). " 'You cannot be what you cannot see': Chef's Table star Asma Khan dishes on time-honoured Indian recipes and turning opportunity into advocacy". National Post . Retrieved 6 May 2020. Ward, Victoria (11 August 2018). "Female chef left 'seething' after Michelin-starred rival told her to 'take a risk and work in a man's kitchen' ". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Archived from the original on 30 January 2019 . Retrieved 19 July 2019. It is interesting to read that Khan’s mother, Ammu, was herself a pioneer in challenging the patriarchal restrictions by which women continue to be constrained. She founded a food business in India and Khan is the heir to her recipes. Asma has furthered her mother’s legacy and, through food, has worked to develop how women are thought about whether in domestic or professional kitchens. The book itself contains a variety of recipes that Asma loved from her childhood and she evocatively describes her memories of each dish so as to underscore its importance in her personal development whether as a child in Kolkata, Hyderabad and Madras, or a student at Cambridge University. The recipes traverse a number of regions and bring to the table a variety of dishes with influences from Bengali, Afghan, Mughlai and Turkish cuisines. Not only does Ausma Zehanat Khan try to bring to the readership’s attention the issue of immigration and liberty of expression, but as a woman coming from a family rooted in a culture of ancient traditional outlooks, she has much to say about them as well. For anyone following the topic, this might seem like shaky ground to stand on, for any position that could be taken on these issues might seem provocative or even spurious. There is very little room for doubt and apparently no safe ground. Despite all of what has been here described regarding this danger, Ausma Zehanat Khan has achieved just what may seem impossible: to achieve a position that is both stable and safe by virtue of its universal humanitarian outlook and her defense justice rooted in a deep morality and tradition.Although Asma loved food, she left home without ever learning to cook. When she did eventually marry and move to Cambridge to join her husband in 1991, she couldn’t even boil an egg. Separated from home and unable to recreate the food she loved and missed, she felt isolated and alone. ‘I was so unhappy,’ she says. ‘I’d seen pictures in books of trees with no leaves, but it wasn’t until I came to the UK that I saw one in the flesh. The sensation of holding a tree – and you could feel it was stripped and hollow – that’s how I felt. The place I’d left behind was so abundant, so loving and warm, and suddenly I’d moved to this cold country in winter with a person I didn’t really know.’ Her husband – a graduate tutor at the time – was rarely home for meals, leaving Asma to fend for herself. ‘I had never eaten alone before in my life,’ she adds. ‘It was very lonely.’