Photo by David Loftus
The story of food is more than a collection of recipes: it tells the story of us. Or maybe I should put it this way: recipes are never 'just' recipes; they themselves tell the stories. 'Made in India' is such a wonderful, vibrant example of this — the second half of the title being 'Cooked in Britain: Recipes from an Indian Family Kitchen'. Meera Sodha's food is Gujarati as cooked in the north of England, with Kenyan and Ugandan influences along the way. It is deeply personal food, alive and authentic — the best sort — and, frankly, I want to cook everything in this book. Still, choose I must, and the recipe below makes me hungry and happy.
From Made In India by Meera Sodha, published by Penguin Fig Tree, 2014.
Photography by David Loftus.
