Extra Bites: Dina Begum

Made in Bangladesh

This week on Cooking the Books, Dina Begum takes us through the Brick Lane of her childhood to the Birmingham of her extended family to the old country she left behind, aged four.

It’s the story of thousands of British Bangladeshis, but Dina has become the word on her heritage from the diasporic viewpoint. The folklore, the mystics, the songs and of cou…