Cookbook challenge
Editor Keith Kendrick gets nostalgic inspiration from this tribute to the author’s mother
Ammu by Asma Khan
Recipe adapted from Ammu by Asma Khan (£26, Ebury).
Photographs Laura Edwards.
For many of us home cooks, our mothers are the inspiration for our own adventures in the kitchen as grown-ups. My late mum wasn’t much of a cook, but she made the best apple pie I’ve ever tasted, partly because her recipe was so good, but mainly because it evokes so many childhood memories. It was the dish that set me off on my own cooking journey. Reading Asma Khan’s new cookbook triggered that nostalgia as it’s dedicated to her own mum – her ammu – who taught her daughter how to cook ‘and live’.