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Fashion Plate: Zaynab Issa On Third Culture Life And Culinary Style

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4.6592 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Zaynab Issa is the next guest on our new miniseries, Fashion Plate, where we feature creatives at the intersection of food and fashion. A stylish multi-hyphenate, Zaynab is a recipe developer, freelance creative, travel enthusiast, and soon-to-be cookbook author. She joins host Kerry Diamond to talk about her debut book, "Third Culture Cooking" (out April 2025), growing up in suburban New Jersey (and loving mall food), the influence of Khoja cuisine, which blends her Indian and East African roots, and why her fashion icons include her two older sisters and Zoë Kravitz. Thank you to Boden for supporting Fashion Plate. Use code CB10 for 10% off at boden.com. Visit cherrybombe.com for subscriptions, show transcripts, and tickets to upcoming events. More on Zaynab: Website, Instagram More on Kerry: Instagram

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0:00.0

Hi, Boys and girls are all fired up.

0:07.0

I've still got a touch.

0:10.0

Oh, world's chicken, drinking, baby, and we're all about it.

0:15.0

Hi, everyone. You are listening to Radio Cherry Bomb, and I'm your host, Carrie Diamond. I've still got a touch of laryngitis. That is what happens when you talk too much, but we're making the best of things. Today is the second episode of our fashion plate miniseries, presented by our friends at Bowden. Over the next few Wednesdays, we'll be talking to folks at the intersection of food and fashion, one of our

0:37.5

favorite subjects, and how they bring taste and style to everything they do. Joining me today is

0:43.5

Zainab Issa, one of the most fashionable recipe developers and food content creators out there. She is

0:49.3

currently working on her debut cookbook, titled Third Culture Cooking, Classic Recipes for a New Generation.

0:55.9

It will be out in April. I'm very excited about Zainab's book, and I think it's one that all

1:00.4

of you cookbook lovers out there will want to add to your collection. It's going to be as

1:04.8

stylish and as interesting as she is. Zanab joins me to talk about growing up in New Jersey

1:10.0

with her fashionable sisters,

1:12.0

juggling her cultural identities, how she got her start in food media, her love for travel,

1:16.9

and more. Stay tuned for our chat. Our fashion plate miniseries is presented by Bowden,

1:22.7

the British clothing company that you are going to fall in love with. Bodin believes in color,

1:28.8

timelessness, and attention to detail. If you are mad for plaid and prints and corduroy, can we talk about the corduroy for a second?

1:34.7

You might not know this about me, but I love corduroy. Boden dropped their corduroy collection earlier this

1:40.0

month and be still my heart, blazers, trousers, skirts. There's even a midi corduroy shirt dress,

1:46.5

and one of the colors, this is a total coincidence, is Cherry's Jubilee. The dress selection

1:51.6

in general will thrill you. You can search by length, mini, midi, or maxi, by occasion,

1:57.7

and by style. You can even search for, are you ready for this?

2:01.5

Dresses with pockets.

2:03.2

Bodden also has great accessories, bag, shoes, and boots.

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