About the Book : Andaza : A Memoir of Food, Flavour and Freedom in the
Pakistani Kitchen
Andaza is a beguiling memoir of growing up around food as a Pakistani woman -
the struggles, the expectations, the joys, the flavours - and how this time
spent learning from the women of Sumayya Usmanis family helped her to break out
of a conventional Pakistani life. Thanks to her mothers nurturing through food,
and a childhood spent watching her cook in the galley of a merchant ship,
Sumayya came to find freedom in the kitchen and flavour in her hands. The
evocative chapters include Cooking Mummys Pullao, Bitter,