Andaza
Autor Sumayya Usmanien Limba Engleză Hardback – 9 mai 2023
Motivația din spatele volumului Andaza s-a născut din nevoia lui Sumayya Usmani de a înțelege cum aromele copilăriei i-au oferit curajul de a-și construi o identitate proprie, dincolo de normele rigide ale societății pakistaneze. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care autoarea nu scrie doar o cronică de familie, ci o hartă a libertății câștigate prin simțuri. Ea ne poartă în galeria unei nave comerciale, unde, printre valuri și aburi de mâncare, a învățat că gătitul este o formă de reziliență. Notăm cu interes tranziția stilistică a autoarei: dacă în Summers Under the Tamarind Tree s-a concentrat pe tehnica gastronomică pură a Pakistanului, în acest nou volum, rețetele devin ancore emoționale. Capitolele, sugestiv intitulate „Bitter, Dark Lemons” sau „Cooking for Consolation”, transformă experiența senzorială într-un limbaj al maturizării. Ca și Fatty Fatty Boom Boom de Rabia Chaudry, această biografie transformă documentele și amintirile personale într-o narațiune despre apartenență, însă Sumayya Usmani plasează accentul pe „andaza” — intuiția senzorială care înlocuiește măsurătorile stricte, atât în bucătărie, cât și în viață. Merită menționat că, spre deosebire de alte memorii culinare, Andaza nu este doar despre nostalgie, ci despre puterea de a spune „nu” convențiilor prin intermediul moștenirii primite de la femeile din familia sa. Stilul este cald și evocator, iar cele peste 30 de rețete incluse nu sunt simple instrucțiuni, ci prelungiri ale poveștii, invitându-ne să gustăm din drumul autoarei spre independență.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1922616192
Pagini: 312
Ilustrații: Full colour
Dimensiuni: 176 x 246 x 34 mm
Greutate: 1.1 kg
Editura: Murdoch Books
De ce să citești această carte
Recomandăm Andaza cititorilor care caută memorii intime despre legătura dintre identitatea culturală și gastronomie. Este o lectură ideală pentru cei care au apreciat Finding My Voice de Nadiya Hussain, oferind o perspectivă rară asupra vieții unei femei pakistaneze care își găsește vocea prin intermediul tradițiilor culinare transformate în instrumente ale emancipării.
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'Sumayya Usmani is a brilliant storyteller. She transports us with her delicious descriptions of the smells and flavours of the kitchen.'
- Jay Rayner, award-winning writer and food critic
Award-winning food writer Sumayya Usmani's stunning memoir conjures a story of what it was like growing up in Pakistan and how the women in her life inspired her to trust her instincts in the kitchen.
From a young age, food was Sumayya's portal to nurturing, love and self-expression. She spent the first eight years of her life at sea, with a father who captained merchant ships and a mother who preferred to cook for the family herself on a tiny electric stove in their cabin rather than eat in the officer's mess.
When the family moved to Karachi, Sumayya grew up torn between the social expectations of life as a young girl in Pakistan, and the inspiration she felt in the kitchen, watching her mother, and her Nani Mummy (maternal grandmother) and Dadi's (paternal grandmother) confidence, intuition and effortless ability to build complex, layered flavours in their cooking.
This evocative and moving food memoir - which includes the most meaningful recipes of Sumayya's childhood - tells the story of how Sumayya's self-belief grew throughout her young life, allowing her to trust her instincts and find her own path between the expectations of following in her father's footsteps as a lawyer and the pressures of a Pakistani woman's presumed place in the household. Gradually, through the warmth of her family life, the meaning of 'andaza' comes to her: that the flavour and meaning of a recipe is not a list of measured ingredients, but a feeling in your hands, as you let the elements of a meal come together through instinct and experience.
Recipes include:
¿Nani Mummy's prawn karahi
¿Potatoes with curry leaves and turmeric
¿Chicken boti tikka, Bundoo Khan style
¿Mummy's wedding-style chicken korma
¿Bitter lemon, mustard seed and garlic pullao
¿Dadi's banana and fennel seed gulgulay doughnut
'I can't decide whether I want to devour Sumayya's story or her recipes first, but this has left me hungry to travel, to explore... and, of course, to eat.'
Felicity Cloake, Guardian food columnist and author of Perfect, The A-Z of Eating and One More Croissant for the Road
Notă biografică
Sumayya is an experienced cookery teacher having taught in many UK-based cookery schools, including Divertimenti and the School of Artisan Food and her style of teaching is based on inspiring people to trust their senses and intuition with flavours. She has been featured as a resident food writer for four weeks in the Guardian COOK supplement (now known as Feast), and has also featured in the Telegraph, New York Times, Independent, Saveur, Delicious, Olive, BBC Good Food and Food 52. She was called 'the go-to expert in Pakistani cuisine' by BBC Good Food Magazine.
Sumayya is a BBC broadcaster and has been a presenter on BBC Radio Scotland's Kitchen Cafe as well as being a regular panellist on Jay Rayner's The Kitchen Cabinet on BBC Radio 4. She has appeared on BBC Radio 4's Women's Hour. On television, she has appeared on Madhur Jaffrey's Curry Nation on Good Food Channel, and various times on STV and London Live. Sumayya mentors other writers online as well as hosting her podcast, A Savoured Life.
Cuprins
YOU CAN'T COOK WITH WORDS
THE HOPE AT HOSPITALITY'S HEART
FAITH IN THE FLAVOUR OF YOUR HANDS
FEED YOUR GUESTS, AND FEED THEM WELL
COOKING ON MEATLESS DAYS
GREEN CHILLIES ON THE SIDE
CHAAT ISN'T A STARTER
PICKLED LEMONS AND PERFECT PHULKAS
BENAZIR AND BUNDOO KHAN
COOKING MUMMY'S PULLAO
DADI'S FREE SPIRIT
THE SECRET TO LAYERING SPICES IS SERENITY
WEDDING KORMA IS NEVER MADE WITH CREAM
MITHAI ISN'T DESSERT
BITTER, DARK LEMONS
COOKING FOR CONSOLATION
ANDAZA IN MY KITCHEN
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