Bangla-dish!: An Evening with Cookbook Author Dina Begum

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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.
A unique visual feast with beautiful food and location photography that captures the atmosphere and vibrancy of Bangladeshi food.

Dina Begum is a British-Bangladeshi writer based in London who has written articles and recipes for nationwide publications such as The Telegraph, The Herald, Huffington Post, Metro and The Independent, amongst others. Dina is a member of the Guild of Food Writers and has also written a feature and recipes series for Great British Chefs, based on the six seasons of Bangladeshi cuisine and filmed a spice blends tutorial series for Yodomo. 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) and a supperclub at Archestratus in New York. Her first cookbook, The Brick Lane Cookbook, was published in 2018.

Council Member Shahana Hanif is a Brooklyn-lifer and represents Little Bangladesh, Kensington, where she was born and raised, Park Slope, Gowanus, and more. She is NYC Council’s first Muslim woman and the first Bangladeshi elected! Council Member Hanif is known for championing NYC’s Universal Mandatory Composting legislation, which passed in her first term. Among her priorities is also food security and expanding protections for fast food and delivery workers. Her bill Intro 204 would expand paid sick and safe leave to include gig workers, particularly the 140K app-based workers across the ride-share and food delivery sectors. This legislation directly impacts our immigrant and essential workers who continued to work through COVID without any guaranteed protections or paid time off. She was formerly Chair of the Immigration Committee and now Co-Chairs the Progressive Caucus and Task Force to Combat Hate. Council Member Hanif loves to eat, dine, and cook, be sure to ask her for NYC restaurant recommendations.

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Lofty Pigeon Books, Church Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, USA, United States