Taking you through the six Bangladeshi seasons – summer, monsoon, autumn, late autumn, winter and spring – with warming flavors and memories, Dina Begum's Made in Bangladesh teaches modern classics and age-old recipes to home cooks across the world. From Narkel diye murghi (steamed chicken in a spiced coconut paste) to Tehari (aromatic beef and rice cooked with mustard oil & chillies) and Dhood puli pitha (coconut-stuffed rice flour dumplings in molasses milk), Begum crafts a story of quintessential flavors of the Bangladeshi kitchen.
Historically, Bangladeshi immigrants were the majority owners and operators of the curry houses across the United Kingdom starting in the 1960s through the 1990s. And though Bangladesh only gained its independence in 1971, the region’s ancient cuisine is overdue for some long-deserved culinary praise ana attention.
MOFAD is excited to welcome Dina Begum in celebration of her latest book, Made in Bangladesh: Recipes and Stories from a Home Kitchen. She will be joined by Mayukh Sen, James Beard Award-winning author of Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America, for a conversation on mustard, molasses, and coconut and other quintessential flavors of the Bangladeshi kitchen.
Doors will open at 6:00 PM to allow ticket holders to tour our current exhibition, Flavor: The World to Your Brain. The program will start promptly at 7:00 PM.
Tickets also include the option to purchase Made in Bangladesh by Dina Begum from our bookseller partner Kitchen Arts & Letters in New York City.
DINA BEGUM
Dina Begum is the British-Bangladeshi author of Brick Lane Cookbook (2018) and Made in Bangladesh (2023). She has contributed articles and recipes to publications such as The Telegraph, Whetstone Magazine, Huffington Post and Food52. Dina is a member of the Guild of Food Writers and featured in a micro documentary on Great Big Story as well as BBC podcast, Mission Curry.
MAYUKH SEN
Mayukh Sen is the James Beard Award-winning author of Taste Makers (2021) and the forthcoming book Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star (2025). His work has been anthologized in three editions of The Best American Food Writing, and he teaches food journalism at New York University.