JEDDAH: Born in Pakistan, raised in Saudi Arabia, and now living in the UK, Madeeha Qureshi says she belongs to “a third-culture space.” Her debut publication, “The Red Sea Cookbook,” is her way of coming home to Saudi Arabia.
“Among the vibrancy of Saudi food and picturesque landscape, you will find a little girl’s heartwarming stories and memories,” Qureshi, a food writer, recipe developer and content creator who has more than 300,000 followers on Instagram, tells Arab News. “I cannot separate Saudi Arabia from my core DNA. It is with me wherever I go. It is the place where I was brought up, where my memories were made.”
Born in Pakistan, raised in Saudi Arabia, and now living in the UK, Madeeha Qureshi says she belongs to “a third-culture space.” (Supplied)
British food writer Tom Parker Bowles hailed “The Red Sea Cookbook” as “a joyous introduction to the wonders of Saudi Arabian cookery.” It is part memoir, part culinary atlas, and, Qureshi says, “an applaudable ending to the person who wrote my beginning” — her late father.
Qureshi arrived in the Kingdom as a baby in the early 1980s, when her father worked on Royal Commission projects in Yanbu and Jubail. Her earliest memories are of living in a community of expatriate families from around the world.
