AN EXOTIC gem

Sabrina Ghayour is a self-taught home cook and food lover who was born in Tehran, Iran, but raised in London. After working in hotels, restaurants and the hospitality sector for 17 years organising events and doing marketing, she decided to pursue her dream of becoming a chef. She began running in-demand supper clubs in London called Sabrina’s Kitchen and released her first cookbook, Persiana, in 2014. With the launch of Bazaar – which is her fourth publication – Sabrina is steadily planting Persian and Middle Eastern cuisine on the global map.

Bazaar is an ancient Persian word for the market where vegetables are mostly found, and the seasoned cook felt it was befitting for the plant-based cookbook. While Sabrina emphasises that she is not vegetarian, she has found herself eating less and less meat as she gets older. “I find that meat now makes me sluggish and can be hard to digest; nonetheless, I wrote this book for people who still eat meat but desperately need simple, full-flavoured recipe ideas and inspiration to make them enjoy vegetables more and not just turn to white carbs like bread, potatoes, pasta and rice combined with dairy as meat-free supper alternatives,”