9 Dec 2022

A deep dive into flavour, texture and spice!

From Nine To Noon, 10:10 am on 9 December 2022
Author picture and book cover

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Urvashi Roe is a Great British Bake-off participant who's taken a life-time of snacking delicious food cooked by numerous aunts, uncles and cousins and turned it into a book called Biting Biting.

Born in Tanzania to parents originally from Gujarat, she moved to London at the age of five.

Although her parents were on a tight budget, they always made sure there was some "Biting" on the table.

Her book is a celebration of her family's customs, and the food of the Gujarati diaspora in Africa and the UK.

She tells Kathryn her food memories started in London in the 1970s , when her mother would bring home food her friends had made at the factory she worked at - and it was Punjabi, and Sri Lankan, and South Indian, and Caribbean - all the cultures that were settling in South London at the time.

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