Instead, it’s a collection of simple recipes for busy working families. Like Iyer’s own Roasting Tin series, Musa’s book isn’t meant to be pored over late into the night. The front cover pull-quote from Rukmini Iyer tells you everything you need to know, assuring us that the book is ‘certain to add flavour to your weeknight meal plan.’ Is it good bedtime reading? Not particularly – but that’s not what Bowlful is here to do. Bowlfulis his fourth cookbook, and the second to have been published in English. Since then he’s worked as a chef for Lotus’s Formula 1 team, popped up on your usual suspect weekend cooking shows here in the UK, and hosted a number of television series in his native Malaysia. Having moved to the UK in 1994 to study ‘Construction Management (Quantity Surveying)’, Musa didn’t turn his hand to cooking full-time for a decade. Who wrote it? Norman Musa, a Malaysian chef with a career that has consistently veered off in unexpected directions. Bowlful focuses on a little more than the vessel your food arrives in, though, offering a collection of recipes with distinctly south-east Asian origins. That’s your USP and, equally, my personal culinary manifesto as a millennial who can’t see his way to home ownership and so, for now, simply aspires to having a really nice set of pasta bowls, please and thank you.
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