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Mother Tongue: Flavours of a Second Generation

Mother Tongue: Flavours of a Second Generation

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Gurdeep Loyal celebrates the hybrid third-culture cooking of second-generation migrants around the world today. He explores his culinary upbringing that combined 'authentic home-cooked Punjabi food, with 'inauthentic curry-house Tikka Masalas, the Western foodie cannon, and a wanderlust for travel in pursuit of flavor. Mother Tongue is bursting with vibrantly spiced, colorfully flavor-forward recipes for home-cooks to explore and be inspired by every day.

Format: Hardback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 02 March 2023
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers



Winner of the Jane Grigson Trust Award


Diana Henry


"One of the most gleeful cookbooks of 2023."


Stylist Magazine


"His recipes have a dynamism that is genuine, personal, and flavor-led... dazzling and yet warmly inviting."


Nigella Lawson



With recipes for everything from Coconut Crab Crumpets to Kasundi Keema Lasagne Rolls, award-winning food writer Gurdeep Loyal celebrates the hybrid third-culture cooking of second-generation migrants around the world today.


Born in Britain to Indian parents, Gurdeep 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 home-cooked Punjabi food, with 'inauthentic curry-house Tikka Masalas, the Western foodie cannon, and a wanderlust for travel in pursuit of flavor. What results is a flavor-amplified intercultural cuisine, that is a delicious culinary self-expression of his second-generation experience of the world today.


Gurdeep serves up over 100 knock-out recipes, including a mouth-watering Miso-Masala Fried Chicken Sando, Sweet Chilli-Gunpowder Roasted Cauliflower, Desi Kofta Meatballs with Sticky Mango-Lime Tomatoes and Chocolate-Orange Jalebis, all combined with expert know-how on building, blending, and remixing global flavor combinations.


Mother Tongue is bursting with vibrantly spiced, colorfully flavor-forward recipes for home-cooks to explore and be inspired by every day.

Weight: 958g
Dimension: 195 x 254 x 27 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780008464547

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