Sumayya Usmani is a Pakistani-born author, writer and food educator based in Scotland.

Biography

She was born in

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, Pakistan, and moved to England in 2006, and to

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in 2015. Her early childhood was spent on board ship as her father was a merchant navy captain. She practised law for 12 years before developing a career as a food writer, with a blog called ''My Tamarind Kitchen''. Her first published book, ''Summers Under the Tamarind Tree: Recipes & Memories From Pakistan'' (2016,

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: ) was listed by ''

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'' in its "11 best new cookbooks 2016", described as "spellbinding" and "an unprecedentedly authentic snapshot into the culinary culture of this often overlooked country". Her next book ''Mountain Berries and Desert Spice: Sweet Inspiration From the Hunza Valley to the Arabian Sea'' with photographs by Joanna Yee (Frances Lincoln: ) was published on 6 April 2017. Usmani is working on her third book, a food memoir, called ''Andaza'', for which she won the Scottish Book Trust's Next Chapter Award 2021, in support for her writing the memoir.

References

External links

My Tamarind Kitchen
Living people Women food writers Pakistani food writers Pakistani bloggers Pakistani women bloggers Writers from Karachi 21st-century Pakistani women writers Year of birth missing (living people) {{UK-writer-stub