Mother Tongue: Flavours of a Second Generation

WINNER OF THE JANE GRIGSON TRUST AWARDAmazing, original, boundary breaking. Diana HenryOne of the most gleeful cookbooks of 2023. Stylist MagazineHis recipes have a dynamism that is genuine, personal and flavourled dazzling and yet warmly inviting. Nigella LawsonWith recipes for everything from Coconut Crab Crumpets to Kasundi Keema Lasagne Rolls, awardwinning food writer Gurdeep Loyal celebrates the hybrid thirdculture cooking of secondgeneration migrants around the world today.Born in Britain to Indian parents, Gurd felt constantly pulled by the clashing expectations of both cultures. But through his passion for food and cooking he was able to embrace the delicious contradictions of his plural British Indian identity.In Mother Tongue he explores his culinary upbringing that combined authentic homecooked Punjabi food, with inauthentic curryhouse Tikka Masalas, the Western foodie cannon, and a wanderlust for travel in pursuit of flavour. What results is a flavour amplified intercultural cuisine, that is a delicious culinary selfexpression of his secondgeneration experience of the world today.Gurdeep serves up over 100 knockout recipes, including a mouthwatering MisoMasala Fried Chicken Sando, Sweet ChilliGunpowder Roasted Cauliflower, Desi Kofta Meatballs with Sticky MangoLime Tomatoes and ChocolateOrange Jalebis, all combined with expert knowhow on building, blending, and remixing global flavour combinations. Mother Tongue is bursting with vibrantly spiced, colourfully flavourforward recipes for homecooks to explore and be inspired by every day.