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Award-winning restaurant Darjeeling Express began life as a dinner party with friends; Indian food lovingly cooked from family recipes that go back generations. In this book, Asma reveals the secret to her success, telling her immigrant’s story and how food brought her home. The recipes pay homage to her royal Mughlai ancestry and follow the route of the Darjeeling Express train from the busy streets of Bengal, through Calcutta, where she grew up, and along the foothills of the Himalayas to Hyderabad. This is more than just a collection of delicious and accessible recipes, it is a celebration of heritage, culture, community and quality.“There’s no need to book a flight to experience Indian home cooking” – Fay Maschler, Evening Standard“Asma is a force of nature: bold, funny, talented, philanthropic and unstoppable” – Grace Dent, Grace & Flavour

How do we learn to be religious? To make sense of this process should we emphasise the habitual reinforcement of bodily rituals? Or the active role of individuals in making decisions about faith at key moments? Or should we turn to cognitive science to explain the universal structures on which religiosity is built? And how does a relatively devout minority pass on religion in a generally secular Western context? What significance does religion have for family life in this situation? And how does a religious identity interact with other kinds of collective identification, for example with a nation, ethnic group or a locality? These are some of the questions that Muslim Childhood deals with. This book is about ordinary British Muslims' everyday religious socialisation of children in early and middle childhood. It provides a detailed description of how Muslim families in a secular Western context attempt to pass on their faith to the next generation. It is rooted in detailed qualitative research with 60 Muslim families in one British city. The authors' own analysis of survey data suggests that Muslims in the UK more effectively pass on their faith to the next generation than other religious groups. This book is in part an attempt to explain why that might be.

AS SEEN ON TV“Asma's approach here is seasonal, though it’s one that addresses not just the weather, but our needs and moods, offering an edible calendar to give succour and delight throughout the year.” – Nigella Lawson“Open this book anywhere and you'll find something you'll want to eat” – Delicious Magazine.________Join chef and founder of London’s famous Darjeeling Express restaurant on a flavour odyssey as she shares delicious Indian recipes and family favourites to awaken your palate and nourish your soul. Get ready to embrace six seasons of flavour in this stunning new collection of 80 bright and vibrant Indian recipes inspired by Asma’s native Bengal.Be guided on an atmospheric journey through India's culinary landscape and discover the principles of Ayurvedic cooking. Enjoy a masterclass in creating mouthwatering, easy curries, sides, and desserts that sing with flavour, such as:MIDWEEK CURRIES: Quick Bengali chicken kormaVEGETARIAN MAINS: Delicate lentil fritters with spiced yoghurtINDIAN STREETFOOD: Crispy and spicy tawa toastiesCOMFORT FOOD: Spiced and creamy pumpkin dhalSWEET TREATS: Yogurt with saffron and pistachioThis Indian cookbook teaches you how to use Indian spices confidently, master new cooking techniques and unearth a treasure trove of unforgettable recipes including, veg-friendly curries and fantastic menus to entertain.Monsoon celebrates the pure joy of eating with recipes to suit every craving – a must have for anyone looking to bring flavour back to their kitchen.

An accessible and empowering book about food, designed to inspire thoughtful conversations between kids and grown-ups!This is a kids’ book about food. Food is an integral part of each of our lives. Food represents our culture, our family traditions, and connects us to people we love, here and around the world.This book was made to help kids aged 5-9 learn about how food is much more than what fuels our bodies – when we prepare food, no matter how big or small, we share something of ourselves with those around us.A Kids Book About Food features: A large and bold, yet minimalist font design that allows kids freedom to imagine themselves in the words on the pages.A friendly, approachable, empowering and child-appropriate tone throughout.An incredible and diverse group of authors in the series who are experts or have first-hand experience of the topic.Tackling important discourse together! The A Kids Book About titles are best used when read together. Helping to kickstart important, challenging, and empowering conversations for kids and their grown-ups through beautiful and thought-provoking pages. The series supports an incredible and diverse group of authors, who are either experts in their field, or have first-hand experience on the topic.A Kids Co. is a new kind of media company enabling kids to explore big topics in a new and engaging way, with a growing series of books, podcasts and blogs made to empower. Learn more about us online by searching for A Kids Co.

* The Times Cookbook of the Year 2022 *'Asma Khan... is one of the most articulate, powerful voices in the world of food, and this book is her masterpiece...More than a cookbook, this is a meditation on the power of food to nourish and heal.' - Bee Wilson, The Times'An entrancing book' - Nigella LawsonIndian family food with heart - the mouthwatering new cookbook from Asma Khan, founder of the iconic Darjeeling ExpressThis book is a joyful celebration of the universal power of food to restore, and to comfort. It is a tribute to Ammu, Asma's mother, to the simple home cooking from her kitchen in Calcutta, and an exploration of the inextricable link between food and love.These dishes will bring warmth to your kitchen when you need a meal or dish to share with your family and friends - from quick-and-easy Baghare Aloo and Shahi Paneer, a vegetarian staple all ages love, to Ammu's Chicken Biriyani the much-requested Darjeeling Express favourite.With over 100 recipes, easy-to-follow instructions and a photograph for every dish Ammu is an essential book for anyone wanting to make Indian comfort food at home.'This is the food I cook for my family every day, meals to restore and nourish. I give these recipes to you, with love.' - Asma

On 27 September 1825, the steam engine known as Locomotion No.1 hauled the first passenger train on the opening day of the Stockton & Darlington Railway - paving the way for modern rail travel and reshaping the British landscape for ever. Celebrating 200 years of railway journeys, sixteen authors take a journey through personal memories, history and poetry. Join them on an adventure into the past glory of steam and engine sheds, along heritage lines and 21st century main lines, through feats of British engineering, the rise of diesel and electric, and aboard the famed Orient Express. A glorious pocketbook of 200 years of rail travel told through memoir and verse, with photographs 'The constant clatter, a manmade steel lullabyA gentle sway of carriages as changing landscapes rattle by ...' Featuring Diana Alexander, James Armstrong, CarolineBradley, Myles Cutler, Bronwen R. Evans, Asma Khan, Rebecca McDowall, Sally Mills,Jeff Nicholls, F. David Potter, Graham Powell, Margaret Royall, Stuart Samuel,Anne Swan, Tim Taylor and Julie Wiltshire