My home-cooked dishes are simple yet packed with flavour, using fresh ingredients and some key spices that blend cultures and traditions. Mine is an immigrant’s cuisine, of sorts, merging old traditions with new ones, creating food that spans generations, geography and ethnicity. this is my story.
Food evokes a passion in me that I cherish, one that has grown from my early childhood days in Malawi, Africa, to my teenage years in England, and the last twenty-plus years in my beautiful, adopted home country of New Zealand.
Being of Indian heritage, my love of cooking first started at an early age, and some of my favourite recipes are ones that have been passed down through my family, adapted by each generation to suit the ingredients available. I cook, create recipes, source props and style. I have regular cooking workshops, and have been invited to attend Food Shows to do cooking demos, and Writers festivals to share my story. I have 3 cookbooks published in New Zealand, by Bateman Books and my first cookbook was published in the USA and is available worldwide. My most latest cookbook, which came out in NZ in April, is being republished in the USA for next Spring and will be available worldwide.
Ashia Ismail-Singer
Professions
Author
Special subjects
Fusion food - mixing East & West, using my heritage and the spices I grew up with and creating easy, flavourful recipes with spice.
Regular work
I have authored 3 cookbooks in New Zealand.
My first is now published in USA & available worldwide. The next two will be available next Spring & Autumn.
Advisory boards / Awards
I was part of the New Zealand Food Writers.
Two of my cookbooks have been nominated for the PANZ (Publishers Association of NZ) awards.
I was interviewed earlier this year by Gilly Smith.
