Mother Tongue: Flavours of a Second Generation

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Serendipitously, our conversation via Zoom takes place the day after data from the 2021 census is released. One of the most powerful expressions of identity is language and the phrase “mother tongue” is also very rooted to language.

I’m a card carrying member of the sandwich generation and I love a meal I can make for all the generations, eating mine while running around getting the older generation settled and the younger out the door to swim practice. How thrilling and inspiring to be drawn into Gurdeep’s extraordinary diaspora and fantastic world of flavours! Splendid Table Co-op members will get exclusive content each month and have special opportunities for connecting with The Splendid Table team.I can still remember mum with her pinny (apron) on, in a steamed up summer kitchen bottling preserves, making jam, sponges, neenish tarts (yum) and afghans while blow flies hurled themselves at the windows. I grew up in Woolston, a working class suburb in 1950s Christchurch and down the road was this mystical magical place. Definitely a bridge that is there -- my grandmother used to make it with beef, my mother made it with ground turkey, I make it with pork and beef. On the one hand, it's really fun: I see her reactivated into this space that she lived in for so long. Reading Lutheran Church Basement Women, I grazed once more amid those long-ago, forgettable meals: a table set not for celebration but for utility, forlorn with plastic linen-textured mats, tarnished Danish silverware, odds-and-ends plates.

Chili powders tend to range a lot in heat level so give it a taste before you start to make sure you’re not surprised after adding the first 2 teaspoons. Used aged gouda and smoked mozzarella because that’s what I had and the recommended cheeses are difficult/impossible to find in Belgium.The recipe makes a large amount, and for my current household of two it is too much, but we froze some for later use. A stunningly evocative cookbook with creative modern recipes that pay homage to the rich and diverse Punjabi and South Asian culinary traditions.