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Sumayya Usmani is an award-winning author of two cookbooks about Pakistani cuisine; she is also a food educator. Sumayya was born and raised in Karachi and left a legal career to follow her passion for writing. She's known as the go-to expert of Pakistani cuisine as dubbed by BBC Good Food. Sumayya won the Scottish Book Trust Award in 2021 for work on her next book, a narrative non-fiction memoir which is to be published in 2023. Sumayya lives in Glasgow.