Jikoni: Recipes from an Immigrant Kitchen by Ravinder Bhogal
Jikoni means ‘kitchen’ in Kiswahili, a word that perfectly captures Ravinder Bhogal’s approach to food in her new cookbook ‘Jikoni: Proudly Inauthentic Recipes from an Immigrant Kitchen’. These proudly inauthentic recipes are what you might loosely call ‘immigrant cuisine’, with evocative stories from a past that illustrates the powerful relationship between food, people, place and identity. The tastes and smells of this brazen new world are sophisticated, welcoming, fresh, exciting and bold.
Jikoni: Proudly Inauthentic Recipes from an Immigrant Kitchen
by Ravinder Bhogal
Published in Hardcover (9 July 2020)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Language: English, 304 pages
ISBN-10: 1526601443
ASIN: B086XHXZPQ
Guide Price: £11.83 – Kindle Edition | £18.34 – Hardcover Edition
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‘Jikoni: Proudly Inauthentic Recipes from an Immigrant Kitchen’ features recipes from Asia, Africa and the Middle East, inspired by Ravinder Bhogal’s mixed heritage and the kitchens she grew up in.
Ravinder was born in Kenya to Indian parents; when she moved to London as a child, the cooking of her new home collided with a heritage that crossed continents. What materialised was a playful approach to the world’s larder, and Ravinder’s recipes do indeed have a rebellious soul. They are lawless concoctions that draw their influences from one tradition and then another – Cauliflower Popcorn with Black Vinegar Dipping Sauce; Spicy Aubergine Salad with Peanuts, Herbs and Jaggery Fox Nuts; Skate with Lime Pickle Brown Butter; Tempura Samphire and Nori; Lamb and Aubergine Fatteh; or utterly irresistible Banana Cake accompanied by Miso Butterscotch and Ovaltine Kulfi.
About Ravinder Bhogal
Ravinder Bhogal is an award-winning food writer, restaurateur, British chef, journalist and stylist. She founded her first restaurant Jikoni in Marylebone, London in September 2016.
Bhogal’s work and food spans flavours and culinary traditions from the Far East, India & South Asia, the Middle East, East Africa and Britain and she celebrates the idea of immigrant cuisine. She has twice been included in the Evening Standard Progress 1000 list as one of London’s leading influencers of progress and diversity in the capital.
Ravinder writes a regular monthly column for the FT Weekend. She travelled the world to investigate the journeys of different foods and farming practices in Channel 4’s “Food: What’s in your Basket” with co-host Jay Rayner and has also hosted Ravinder’s Kitchen, a culinary TV series that premiered in October 2013 on TLC. Bhogal made her first TV appearance when she won a competition in search of the new Fanny Cradock, judged by Gordon Ramsay and Angela Hartnett on The F Word.
