Nadiya Hussain: Mom's Korma & Rice

Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle

Rachel Belle

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4.4 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Winning Season 6 of The Great British Bake-Off completely changed Nadiya Hussain's life. The fan favorite went from a stay-at-home mom to the author of more than a dozen books, she's hosted nearly as many television programs and was commissioned by Buckingham Palace to bake Queen Elizabeth II's 90th birthday cake (orange drizzle cake with orange curd and orange butter cream, in case you're cake curious).

Nadiya grew up in a British Bangladeshi family, with a dad who owned and cooked in Indian restaurants. As a kid, she was frustrated that he served watered down, westernized versions of her family's favorite foods.

That is not the case at Seattle's Spice Waala. Host Rachel Belle chats with Dr Aakanksha Sinha and Uttam Mukherjee, Indian immigrants who had grown so frustrated with the lack of regional Indian food in America, they quit their corporate jobs to open an Indian street food restaurant showcasing kathi rolls and chaat. They've also translated their social justice morals and values into caring for their employees and the community.

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0:00.0	Alaska Airlines has teamed up with Hawaiian Airlines to create new nonstop international flights.
0:05.8	Go to Alaskaair.com or Hawaiian Airlines.com and I'll tell you more details later in the show.
0:11.6	Cairo, Seattle.
0:31.2	I'm Rachel Bell, and this is your last meal, a show about famous people and the stories behind the foods they love most.
0:37.0	Today on the program, Nadia Hussein, winner of the Great British Bakeoffs Sixth Season. At the time, Nadia was a stay-at-home mom,
0:40.0	but the win completely changed her life. Since 2015, she's written a dozen books, a combination
0:45.4	of cookbooks, children's books, and a memoir, and she's hosted eight TV shows, including Nadia
0:51.5	Bakes on Netflix, which is also the name of her most recent baking book.
0:55.9	Nadia is British Bangladeshi, and her dad spent his entire career running and owning Indian restaurants.
1:02.9	And Nadia always felt frustrated that he served as customers watered down, westernized versions,
1:08.5	of the flavorful meals they ate at home. Well, this is not the case at Seattle's Spice Walla, an Indian street food restaurant opened
1:15.4	by an immigrant couple who also felt frustrated by the lack of regional Indian food in America.
1:20.9	I was like, when we have kids, I don't want my kids growing up in this country thinking
1:24.8	that this is Indian food.
1:26.2	We'll hear a lot more from Dr. Akangshah Sinha and her husband and business partner coming
1:30.8	up later in the show.
1:32.2	But first, my conversation with Nadia Hussein.
1:38.0	Today, Nadia is known for her baking.
1:40.5	But growing up north of London, eating her parents' Bangladeshi cooking, she didn't even know
1:45.6	what an oven was.
1:47.4	No, absolutely not.
1:49.1	I laugh about it now, but baking isn't something that we grew up doing.
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