Gurdeep Loyal: Mother Tongue

This week, Gilly chats to a new voice in food writing, Gurdeep
Loyal. Diana Henry calls him 'amazing, original, boundary
breaking, a genius with flavour’. He's a cool hunter, a podcaster
and writer and his debut cookbook Mother Tongue has exploded a
whole new way of thinking about Indian food.


Since he won the Jane Grigson Trust award in 2020 for his
proposal for Mother Tongue, the food world has been salivating as
we wait for the arrival of the final book. Anna Jones says ‘every
so often a rare cookbook comes along which brings something
completely new and fascinating to the world of food.’ Claudia
Roden says she’s thrilled 'to be drawn into Gurdeep’s
extroarindary diaspora and fantastic world of flavours.' Felicity
Cloake says he’s 'a Willy Wonka wizard of flavour.'





Follow Gilly on Instagram @foodgillysmith, and you can also find
a little surprise over on Substack each week as she asks her
guests for a little extra something. Gurdeep has not only created
a special Cooking the Books Spotify playlist, but written
beautifully on her Substack about his choices. It’s a must read
and listen.  


And if you'd like to learn how to podcast and really say
something, you can sign up for her Domestika course. Use the
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