Description
Discover the culinary delights of Muslim South Asian cookery in this special event celebrating long-forgotten recipes, with a rich helping of histories and cultures.
Forgotten Food is a project all about preserving Muslim South Asia’s unique heritage linked to food, culture and literature – from culinary memories to lost recipes. In this session, we will talk about the project’s delectable anthologies of food writing, Dastarkhwan and Forgotten Food, with author Rana Safvi and food historian Siobhan Lambert-Hurley.
Taste delicious morsels from the past recreated from 19th-century Urdu and Persian cookbooks using heritage rice varieties resurrected by the project team. It’s time to let your taste buds have a party!
If you have any food allergies, please get in touch with the Box Office at [email protected] before the event.
About the Speakers
Rana Safvi
Rana Safvi is a passionate believer in India’s unique civilizational legacy and pluralistic culture which she documents through her writings, podcasts and videos. She has published ten books so far on culture, history, the monuments of India and Sufism. These are Tales from the Quran and Hadith, The Delhi Trilogy: Where Stones Speak, The Forgotten Cities of Delhi and Shahjahanabad: The Living City of Old Delhi, A Saint, A Folk Tale and Other Stories, In Search of The Divine, Living Histories of Sufism in India.She has translated both the editions of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan’s seminal work on Delhi, Asar-us-Sanadid, Dastan-e-Ghadar and four accounts of 19th & 20th century Delhi, Begumat ke Aansoo from Urdu to English.
Siobhan Lambert-Hurley
Siobhan Lambert-Hurley is a historian based at the University of Sheffield. She has written a number of books on women and gender in Muslim South Asia – the most recent being Three Centuries of Travel Writing by Muslim Women (2022) and Elusive Lives: Gender, Autobiography and the Self in Muslim South Asia (2018). With Tarana Husain Khan and Claire Chambers, she edited Forgotten Foods: Memories and Recipes from Muslim South Asia, due out this year. She also co-edited the Forgotten Food series for Scroll.in. Currently, she leads the Forgotten Food project.
Farah Yameen
Farah Yameen started out as a filmmaker, discovered it was not her calling and moved to public histories and digital archiving. Her public history works deal with diverse subjects: cultural geographies and the individual person, democratic movements, personal histories of journalism, and, lately, food. This last has become an enduring obsession.
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