Sumayya Usmani

Sumayya Usmani is a Pakistani-born author, writer and food educator based in Scotland.^[1][2]

She was born in Karachi, Pakistan, and moved to England in 2006, and to Glasgow in 2015. Her early childhood was spent on board ship as her father was a merchant navy captain. She practised law for 12 years before developing a career as a food writer, with a blog called My Tamarind Kitchen.^[1][2]

Her first published book, Summers Under the Tamarind Tree: Recipes & Memories From Pakistan (2016, Frances Lincoln: ISBN 978-0711236783) was listed by The Independent in its "11 best new cookbooks 2016", described as "spellbinding" and "an unprecedentedly authentic snapshot into the culinary culture of this often overlooked country".^[3] Her next book Mountain Berries and Desert Spice: Sweet Inspiration From the Hunza Valley to the Arabian Sea with photographs by (Frances Lincoln: ISBN 978-0711238527) was published on 6 April 2017.^[4] As of May 2021 Usmani is working on her third book, a food memoir, called Andaza, for which she won the Scottish Book Trust's Next Chapter Award 2021, in support for her writing the memoir.^{[citation needed]}

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