Made in Bangladesh: Flavours and Memories in Six Seasons: Recipes and Stories from a Home Kitchen

Made in Bangladesh: Flavours and Memories in Six Seasons: Recipes and Stories from a Home Kitchen by Dina Begum explores Bangladeshi cooking through 75 recipes. Organised around the country’s six seasons, the book moves from summer and monsoon through to winter and spring, pairing warming flavours with memories and introducing both modern classics and long-established dishes for home cooks. Recipes include Puchka (potato and chickpea filled pastry shells with tamarind sauce), Tenga (a 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 and chillies) and Dhood puli pitha (coconut-stuffed rice flour dumplings in molasses milk). Dina Begum also shares guidance on pantry essentials, includes a range of vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free recipes, and provides sample menus for feeding a crowd, celebrating food as a source of community and festivity. The book is illu...