’ SUMAYYA USMANI S SINDHI KARRI
Jul 30, 2020
4 minutes
as told to TONY NAYLOR
“I felt this need to speak about and identify Pakistani food”
When Sumayya Usmani arrived in London in 2005, she felt she couldn’t get a real Pakistani dish in any restaurant. The Karachi-born lawyer was stung by that absence. ‘I felt this need to speak about and identify Pakistani food,’ says Sumayya, who began to write, teach, and – in books such as her 2016 cookbook
– demystify Pakistani cuisine for a Western audience. Not that this contributor to The Kitchen Café on BBC Radio Scotland is solely focused on South Asian cooking. After quitting the legal profession,
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