Gurdeep Loyal: Mother Tongue

<p>This week, Gilly chats to a new voice in food writing, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/gurd_loyal/?hl=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Gurdeep Loyal</a>. <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/d/df-dj/diana-henry/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Diana Henry</a> calls him 'amazing, original, boundary breaking, a genius with flavour’. He's a cool hunter, a podcaster and writer and his debut cookbook <a href="https://www.gurdeeployal.com/mother-tongue" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mother Tongue</a> has exploded a whole new way of thinking about Indian food.</p><br><p>Since he won the <a href="https://janegrigsontrust.org.uk" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jane Grigson Trust</a> 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. <a href="https://annajones.co.uk" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Anna Jones</a> says ‘every so often a rare cookbook comes along which brings something completely new and fascinating to the world of food.’ <a href="https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/22069/claudia-roden" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Claudia Roden</a> says she’s thrilled 'to be drawn into Gurdeep’s extroarindary diaspora and fantastic world of flavours.' <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/profile/felicity-cloake" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Felicity Cloake</a> says he’s 'a Willy Wonka wizard of flavour.'</p><br><p><br></p><p>Follow Gilly on Instagram @foodgillysmith, and you can also find a little surprise over on <a href="https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=Substack+gilly+smith&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Substack </a>each week as she asks her guests for a little extra something. Gurdeep has not only created a special Cooking the Books <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0ayfDe5kQAkiR6kbOcR9TN?si=56577d81818b4416" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Spotify playlist</a>, bu