Why I . . . study gastronomy

Saliha Mahmood Ahmed makes delicate, final touches to her three course menu. It starts with a venison shami kebab—in memory of her grandmother’s home in Pakistan. The main course is a Kashmiri style sous vide duck breast. The final dish is a saffron, rosewater, and cardamom pannacotta, served with a deconstructed baklava—inspired by her love of the dessert as a child.Mahmood Ahmed was the thirteenth amateur cook to win the competitive cooking TV show MasterChef. “I looked up at the judges—John Torode with tears in his eyes and Gregg Wallace beaming,” Mahmood Ahmed says. “By the end of the competition they know you well—how hard you’ve worked and what winning means to you.”Just hours after her win she was back to work as a specialist registrar in gastroenterology at Watford General Hospital. As the programme hadn’t aired yet she couldn’t share her good news. “It was a great shift, even…
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