Shahnaz Ahsan's British-Bangladeshi Kitchen

On this month's Lecker Book Club, a regular interview series with authors writing in or adjacent to food culture, The Jackfruit Chronicles by Shahnaz Ahsan. The Jackfruit Chronicles is a recipe book and memoir hybrid which integrates food into the text in a very specific way. In the book, Shahnaz tells the story of her family’s migration - three generations across three continents - which begins with the arrival of her grandfather Habib in Manchester from Bangladesh in the 1950s. You can still sign the open letter which Shahnaz was involved in creating and circulating, calling on Keir Starmer to take action over the Israeli government’s deliberate and systematic campaign to use starvation as a weapon of war against the Palestinian people of Gaza. Link here. Lecker is now part of Heritage Radio Network! Find out more about this independent podcast network dedicated to food, beverages and the culinary world and discover their many fantastic shows at heritageradionetwork.org . You can find a transcript for this episode at leckerpodcast.com . The Jackfruit Chronicles is out now. Find all of the Lecker Book Club reads on my Bookshop.org list . [aff link] Support Lecker by becoming a paid subscriber on Patreon , Apple Podcasts and now on Substack . Music is by Blue Dot Sessions.

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Shahnaz Ahsan's British-Bangladeshi Kitchen is an episode from Lecker by Lucy Dearlove.

This episode is 48:06 long.

This episode was published on Jul 18, 2025.

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