THURS MAY 9 / DEMO + Community POTLUCK with Made in Bangladesh author DINA BEGUM
Regular price
$42.00
6p to 8p
Join us for a very special food demonstration, chat, signing, and potluck with Dina Begum as we celebrate her cookbook Made in Bangladesh: Recipes and stories from a home kitchen.
The evening will begin with Dina giving a short demo of one of our most favorite dishes: Chotpoti! Chotpoti is a popular all-day snack and it packs a real punch in terms of flavor: there's tanginess from the tamarind, heat from the ground and fresh chillies, plus grated hard-boiled egg, and crisp crunchy pastry, cucumber, and onions.
After the demo, we will move into a chat and Q + A with Dina, and then, finally, we will mangia everyone's potluck food.**
**Si, we encourage you to bring a dish directly from or inspired by Made in Bangladesh, now on our shelves. This is not mandatory at all, just really lovely.
Dina will also happily sign books.
About the book:
Taking you through the six Bangladeshi seasons – summer, monsoon, autumn, late autumn, winter and spring – with warming flavours and memories, Dina Begum's Made in Bangladesh teaches modern classics and age-old recipes to home cooks across the world. Puchka (potato & chickpea filled pastry shells with tamarind sauce), Tenga (light & sour fish stew with green tomatoes), Narkel diye murghi (steamed chicken in a spiced coconut paste),Tehari (aromatic beef and rice cooked with mustard oil & chillies) and Dhood puli pitha(coconut-stuffed rice flour dumplings in molasses milk) are just a few of the enticing dishes she shares.
Dina also offers advice on pantry essentials, a range of vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free recipes, and sample menus for feeding a crowd, celebrating how food brings community and festivity.
Books and drinks will both be for sale on the premises. Feel free to pre-order your book above to guarantee a copy.
DINA BEGUM ◤ is a British-Bangladeshi author and food writer based in London, who has written articles and recipes for publications such as The Telegraph, Whetstone Magazine, Huffington Post, Delicious, Food52, and Metro, amongst others. Dina is a member of the Guild of Food Writers and featured in a micro documentary on Great Big Story as well as BBC podcast Mission Curry. Her first book, The Brick Lane Cookbook, was published in 2018. She has hosted popular Bangladeshi pop ups at Darjeeling Express to showcase home cooking favourites, as part of their #WomenInFood series and has taken part in a programme at The Museum of Food and Drink (MOFAD).