239: Raastawala's Rinku Dutt on her new cookbook, divorce, and starting again.
The Scummy Mummies Podcast
Ellie Gibson and Helen Thorn
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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239: Raastawala's Rinku Dutt on her new cookbook, divorce, and starting again.
She's a fabulous cook, an amazing entrepreneur, and an awesome author - meet our guest for this episode, Rinku Dutt!
She tells us how she came out of a divorce in her twenties to start a whole new career in India - before moving back to the UK to launch her hugely successful street food business, Raastawala.
We also hear about her brilliant new cookbook, Kolkata: Recipes from the Heart of Bengal, and how she managed to write it while being eight months pregnant. Ellie reminisces about one of the best things she ever put in her mouth, and Helen shares a curry recipe from her own culture.
Do follow Rinku on Instagram @raastawala and @rinku.dutt1 for recipes, news and details of where you can try out her fabulous food.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Ellie, do you like money and women? |
| 0:02.0 | Hell yeah, I love money and women. |
| 0:05.0 | Me too, but what sucks is that in the UK, |
| 0:07.8 | there is a gender investment gap of £1.65 trillion, |
| 0:12.4 | many women on average are poorer than men, |
| 0:14.9 | with less in their pensions, savings and investments. |
| 0:18.4 | That is crazy man, we all need to talk about this. |
| 0:21.9 | I know right, can you believe that on average women have less than half |
| 0:25.4 | the levels of savings and investments than men? |
| 0:28.4 | Outrageous, somebody needs to do something about this. |
| 0:32.5 | Well my friend, we are in luck because there is a fabulous podcast called Money Matters |
| 0:37.4 | by those brilliant people at AJ Bell. |
| 0:40.1 | It has all the news, information and inspiring interviews you need to take control |
| 0:44.8 | of your financial future. |
| 0:47.0 | Ah brilliant, thank you AJ Bell, finally somebody is doing something about this. |
| 0:52.8 | Too right, and they also offer a range of educational material, |
| 0:56.7 | including in-person events, articles and a fast-growing social presence. |
| 1:01.5 | Well this sounds awesome, where can people find them? |
| 1:04.6 | Well Ellie, just go to AJ Bell Money Matters.co.uk |
| 1:09.2 | and listen to the AJ Bell Money Matters podcast, |
| 1:12.0 | which is helping women to feel good investing. |
| 1:14.8 | I'm going right now, try to stop me, you can't, no, go on, I've gone, I've left, I'm back, bye. |
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